Name of Vessel:

Mary

Master of Vessel:

 

Rig of Vessel:

Brigantine

Date of Capture:

19 April 1779

Place of Capture:

[Off the coast of Spain]

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Brig Vengeance

Home Port:

 

From What Port:

Liverpool, England

To What Port:

Antigua, British West Indies

Cargo:

 

Tonnage:

 

Battery:

16x4

Crew:

48 [total]

Owners:

 

Prizemaster:

 

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

 

Into What Port:

 

Date Arrived:

 

Date Tried:

 

Date Sold:

 

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Vengeance (Commander Wingate Newman) sailed for America, probably from La Coruña, Spain, about mid April 1779. On 19 April she met the British letter-of-marque brigantine Mary, bound from Liverpool, England to Antigua in the British West Indies. Mary was armed with sixteen 4-pounders and had a crew of forty-eight men aboard. There seems to have been no fight involved in her capture. Vengeance returned to Newburyport from her cruise on 29 May 1779.

Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845, Samuel G. Drake: Boston, 1845, 408, extracted from Surgeon Samuel Nye’s Journal; also see Vengeance]

Posted 11 November 2009