Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Robinson

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

16 April 1780

Place of Capture:

Off the south side of Long Island, near Fire Island Inlet, New York

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloop Hawk

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

some carriage guns; some swivels

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Connecticut Privateer Sloop Hawk (Commander Gideon Olmstead) was at sea in April 1780. In the night of 16 April 1780 he was off the south side of Long Island, near Fire Island Inlet. A strange sloop was seen and hailed, but no answer was received. Olmstead manned his boat and sent her over to the sloop, which was captured. She mounted some carriage guns and some swivels and was commanded by one Robinson. No papers were found.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, 116]

Revised: 11 November 2008