Van Tromp	(1) Commander Sanford Thompson
Armed Brig	1 June 1780-
Connecticut Privateer Brigantine	(2) [unknown] October 1781- (3) Commander Sanford Thompson [June] 1782-

Commissioned/First Date:	1 June 1780
Out of Service/Cause:

Owners:

Uriah Rogers & Co.

Tonnage:

Battery:

Date Reported: 1 June 1780 Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside 12/ Total: 12 cannon/ Broadside: 6 cannon/ Swivels:

Crew:

1 June 1780: 56 [total]

Description:

Officers:

Cruises:

(1) Havana, Cuba to the Connecticut River, Connecticut, [October] 1782-25 October 1782

Prizes:

Actions:

Comments:

Connecticut Privateer Brigantine Van Tromp (or Van Trumpe; Van Trump) was commissioned on 1 June 1780 under Commander Sanford Thompson, of Middletown, Connecticut. She was listed as being armed with twelve guns and having a crew of fifty-five men. She was bonded for $20,000 by Thompson, Comfort Sage of Middletown and James Church of Hartford. Van Tromp was owned by Uriah Rogers & Co.¹

Although Thompson commanded the Connecticut Privateer Schooner Weasel from October 1781,² he evidently returned to the Van Tromp later. Van Tromp is recorded as arriving in the Connecticut River on 25 October 1782, inward bound from Havana, Cuba.³

¹ NRAR, 484; Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 239

² Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 309

³ Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 239; The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer [New London], Friday, November 1, 1782

Posted 28 October 2009

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