Vengeance
Armed Vessel
[unknown] Privateer [unknown]

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Out of Service/Cause:	[May] 1777/captured by HM Sloop Raven

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Date Reported: 27 June 1777 Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: ten

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(1) America to the West Indies, [April] 1777-[May] 1777

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[unknown] Privateer [unknown] Vengeance was at sea in [May] 1777 when she was captured by HM Sloop Raven. Vengeance was captured 120 miles west of St. Eustatius, Dutch West Indies, with a cargo of rice, tobacco, and indigo. She was escorted to Gibralter, arriving on 22 June 1777. Her battery was listed as ten guns and six swivels.¹

¹ NDAR, "Extract of a Letter from An Officer Belonging to his Majesty's Ship the Levant, dated Gibralter, June 27.," IX, 436-437. This report may be questionable.

Posted 9 December 2009

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