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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Swan |
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| Swan | Commander Richard Salter |
| Armed Brig | 22 December 1780-9 May 1781 |
| New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 22 December 1780 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 9 May 1781/captured by HM Frigate Actaeon |
| Owners: | John Langdon of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
| Tonnage: | 140 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 22 December 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 22 December 1780: 13 [total] |
| Description: |
| Officers: | (1) First Lieutenant Edward O’Bryen, 22 December 1780-9 May 1781 |
| Cruises: | (1) Portsmouth, New Hampshire to the West Indies, [January] 1781-9 May 1781 |
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Comments:
The 140-ton1 New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Swan was commissioned on 22 December 1780 under Commander Richard Salter of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Swan was listed as having a battery of four guns and a crew of twelve men. Her $20,000 bond was executed by Salter, Langdon and John Parker of Portsmouth.2 Edward O’Bryen served aboard as First Lieutenant.3
Swan made a voyage to the West Indies. On 9 May 1781 Swan was captured by HM Frigate Actaeon (Captain Francis Parry). Swan was sent into Kingston, Jamaica, where she was tried and condemned on 19 June 1780.4
1 McManemin, Captains of the Privateers, 370
2 NRAR, 470
3 McManemin, Captains of the Privateers, 370
4 McManemin, Captains of the Privateers, 370. According to Remick, Record, 110, the Swan was captured in 1781 after taking several prizes, and sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia. One of her crew members was exchanged into Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1781. It seems that Remick has placed the crewman on the wrong privateer.
| Posted 14 October 2011 |
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