Name of Vessel:

HM [unknown] Tender [unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

23 December 1775

Place of Capture:

Hampton Roads, Virginia, near Lighthouse Point

Captor:

Virginia militia

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

16 [total]

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[Abandoned on shore]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: On 22 December 1775 information was received at Hampton that there was yet another tender en route to the Eastern Shore. This tender was at anchor between Lighthouse Point and the mouth of the York River. About twenty men, under the command of Captain Morgan Alexander, including “6 gentlemen volunteers from the Musquetto,” went up and found the tender. The weather was very bad, with gales blowing off the water, and snow was falling. In the tempestuous night the tender cut her cable and drifted ashore. Her crew fled. The Americans rounded up the crew in the morning, fourteen whites and two blacks, and examined the vessel in the breaking surf,  recovering twenty-four muskets. The prisoners were brought to Hampton.

[NDAR, III, 297, 306-307]

Revised 10 August 2009