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Connecticut Privateer Sloop Vengeance |
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| Vengeance | Commander William Dennis |
| Armed Sloop | 8 March 1780-16 April 1780 |
| Connecticut Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 8 March 1780 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 16 April 1780/captured by HM Sloop Delight |
| Owners: | Jonathan Waldron of Norwich, Connecticut |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 8 March 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 14/ Total: 14 cannon/ Broadside: 7 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 24 April 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 14/ Total: 14 cannon/ Broadside: 7 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | (1) 8 March 1780: 81 [total]
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Comments:
Connecticut Privateer Sloop Vengeance was commissioned on 8 March 1780 under Commander William Dennis, a native of Rhode Island. She was listed as having fourteen guns and eighty men in her crew. Vengeance was bonded for $20,000 by Dennis, Waldron and Thomas Mumford of Norwich, Connecticut. Her owner was Jonathan Waldron of Norwich.1 Dennis was age thirty at the time.2
Vengeance was presumably on her first cruise when she was captured on 16 April 17803 by HM Sloop Delight (Commander John Inglis). She was sent into New York, arriving before 24 April. The British reported that she was armed with fourteen guns and had a crew of fifty or sixty men.4 She was tried and condemned there in 1781.5
1 NRAR, 484; Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, 239
2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 89
3 The London Gazette, Tuesday, July 3, to Saturday, July 7, 1781
4 The New-York Gazette; and The Weekly Mercury, Monday, April 24, 1780
5 HCA 32/470/11/1-7
| Posted 3 November 2009 |
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