Name of Vessel:

Marlborough

Master of Vessel:

 

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[15] April 1779

Place of Capture:

Off Sandy Hook, New Jersey

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloops Beaver and Hancock

Home Port:

From What Port:

Bermuda, British West Indies

To What Port:

New York, New York

Cargo:

Lumber

Tonnage:

 

Battery:

 

Crew:

 

Owners:

 

Prizemaster:

 

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

New London, Connecticut

Into What Port:

New London, Connecticut

Date Arrived:

22 April 1779

Date Tried:

 

Date Sold:

 

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloops Beaver (Commander William Havens) and Hancock (Commander Elisha Hinman) were off Sandy Hook, New Jersey about mid April 1779. There they captured a sloop, the Despatch, bound from Saint-Domingue, French West Indies with a cargo of rum and sugar. Despatch had been captured by a British vessel and was re-captured by the Hancock and Beaver. The schooner Marlborough, bound from Bermuda to New York with a cargo of lumber, was also captured off Sandy Hook. Both prizes arrived at New London, Connecticut on 22 April. She had also been captured off Sandy Hook. On Friday, 23 April, another prize arrived at New London: a schooner in ballast bound from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Virginia. The schooner had been captured by the British and re-captured by the two privateers.

[The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer [New London], Thursday, April 29, 1779]

Posted 11 November 2009