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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Wilkes |
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| Wilkes | Commander Mendes fils Cadet |
| Armed Sloop | 29 May 1777- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 29 May 1777 |
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| Owners: | Mendes fils Cadet of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 29 May 1777 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 29 May 1777: 61 [total] |
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Comments:
New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Wilkes (Wilks) was commissioned under Commander Mendes fils Cadet, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 29 May 1777.1 Wilkes was listed as armed with ten guns and having a crew of sixty men. Her bond for $5,000 was executed by Cadet, Edmund Roberts and Gideon Samson, both of Exeter, New Hampshire.2
1 NRAR, 492; NDAR, “List of Bonds for New Hampshire Privateers,” XI, 220. In the last source he appears as “Mendes Fits Cadits;” Emmons, 168
2 NRAR, 492
| Posted 10 April 2011 |
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