Valentine
Armed Ship
South Carolina Privateer [Ship]

Commissioned/First Date:	[15] July 1777
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(1) Schooner Two Brothers, [15 July] 1777

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South Carolina Privateer [Ship] Valentine was at sea in July 1777. She captured the schooner Two Brothers, from New Providence bound to New York. On 27 July 1777, at 1400, some twenty-one miles southeast of Charleston Lighthouse, the Two Brothers was recaptured by HM Frigates Perseus (Captain George Keith Elphinstone), Galatea (Captain Thomas Jordan) and Brune (Captain James Ferguson).¹

¹ NDAR, “Journal of H.M.S.Perseus, Captain George Keith Elphinstone,” IX, 343-345 and 345 note

Posted 29 October 2009

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