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Maryland Privateer Schooner Young Neptune |
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| Young Neptune | Commander Gilbert de La Roche |
| Schooner | 9 September 1780- |
| Maryland Privateer Schooner |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 9 September 1780 |
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| Owners: | Lacaze and Mallet, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Tonnage: | 95 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 9 September 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 9 September 1780: 31 [total] |
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The 95-ton Maryland Privateer Schooner Young Neptune was commissioned on 9 September 1780 under Commander Gilbert de La Roche,1 possibly from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.2 She was listed as having ten guns, with six swivel guns, and as having thirty men in her crew. Her owners are given as Lacaze & Mallet of Philadelphia.3 Young Neptune was bonded for $20,000 by La Roche and John Muir of Annapolis, Maryland.4
Young Neptune was one of a group of eight privateers working together in 1780. These included the schooner Cassandra (out of Charleston), ship Marquis, brigs Trooper, Adventure, Randolph and Betsey, and schooner Vengeance. A regular system of signals had been worked out for the squadron, which was revealed when HMS Bristol captured Cassandra.5
1 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, 1779-1780, 43:282
2 NRAR, 495
3 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, 1779-1780, 43:282; see also ; Emmons, 169
4 NRAR, 495
5 Wilbur, C. Keith, Picture Book of the Revolution's Privateers, Stackpole Books: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1973, p. 57
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