Name of Vessel:

Game Cock

Master of Vessel:

Charles Letelier

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[7] April 1779

Place of Capture:

Near Block Island, Rhode Island

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloops Hancock and Beaver

Home Port:

New York, New York

From What Port:

New York, New York

To What Port:

 

Cargo:

 

Tonnage:

30

Battery:

6x

Crew:

 

Owners:

 

Prizemaster:

 

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

New London, Connecticut

Into What Port:

New London, Connecticut

Date Arrived:

11 April 1779

Date Tried:

28 April 1779

Date Sold:

29 April 1779

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloop Hancock (Commander Elisha Hinman) and Connecticut Privateer Sloop Beaver (Commander William Havens) sailed from New London, Connecticut about 5 April 1779. The pair captured the British Privateer Sloop Game Cock (Charles Letelier), six guns, sailing out of New York, New York about 7 April. She was captured off Block Island, Rhode Island and sent into New London, arriving on 11 April. Game Cock was libeled on 15 April, and tried and condemned on 28 April. She was sold the next day.

[The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer [New London], Thursday, April 15, April 22, 1779; Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 54, 107]

Posted 11 November 2009