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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Wasp |
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| Wasp | Commander Daniel McNeill |
| Armed Brig | 5 June 1782-23 September 1782 |
| Massachusetts Privateer Schooner |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 5 June 1782 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 23 September 1782/captured by British Privateers Stag and Jason |
| Owners: | Stephen Higginson, Ebenezer Parsons et al, of Boston, Massachusetts |
| Tonnage: | 150 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 5 June 1782 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 5 June 1782: 21 [total] |
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| Cruises: | (1) Boston, Massachusetts to Guadeloupe, French West Indies, June 1782-June 1782
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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Wasp was commissioned on 5 June 1782 under Commander Daniel McNeill of Boston. She was reported armed with six guns and with a crew of twenty men. Wasp was bonded for $20,000 by McNeill, Higginson, and Ebenezer Parsons of Boston.1
The owners ordered Wap to proceed to Martinique and Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. McNeill was to pick up a cargo there and sail to Nantes or L’Orient, France. Wasp made her voyage to Guadeloupe, and cleared outward from Pointre a Pitre on 30 July 1782. She sailed for Europe with a cargo of sugar, coffee, indigo, and cotton. Wasp was anchored at L’Île-d’Yeu on 23 September 1782.2
While at anchor she was captured by the British Privateers Stag (Phillip Durell), four guns and twenty-six men, and Jason (Amice Gabourett), ten guns and forty men. McNeill made no resistance. Wasp was taken into Guernsey in the Channel Isles,3 where she was tried and condemned by the High Court of Admiralty. She was described as an American merchant vessel in the court documents.4
1 NRAR, 490; Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 325; Emmons, 168
2 McManemin, Captains of the Privateers, 195-196
3 McManemin, Captains of the Privateers, 195-196
4 HCA 32/488/16/1-18
| Posted 16 April 2011 |
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