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Connecticut Privateer Galley Young Lion |
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| Young Lion | Commander Peter Vail |
| Patrol Craft | 31 July 1782- |
| Connecticut Privateer Galley |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 31 July 1782 |
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| Owners: | John Foster & Co. |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 31 July 1782 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 31 July 1782: 26 [total] |
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Comments:
Connecticut Privateer Galley Young Lion was commissioned on 31 July 1782 under Commander Peter Vail of New Haven, Connecticut. She was listed as having four guns and as having twenty-five men in her crew. Young Lion was bonded for $20,000 by Vail, Robert Usher (with no listed address) and John Alden of Lebanon, Connecticut.1 She was owned by John Foster & Co., possibly of East Haddam, Connecticut.2
1 NRAR, 495; Middlebrook, History of Maritime Connecticut, II, 251
2 Middlebrook, History of Maritime Connecticut, II, 251
| Revised 30 May 2009 |
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