Name of Vessel:

Success

Master of Vessel:

Hitch

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[2 December] 1775

Place of Capture:

Captor:

[unknown]

Home Port:

From What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Cattle, wood, provisions

Tonnage:

50, 60

Battery:

four swivel guns

Crew:

7

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

21 March 1776

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: On 2 December 1775 an unknown privateer was reported to have captured an unknown 60-ton sloop, with an unmentioned master, bound to Boston from Hakifax with wood and cattle, a crew of seven men, and armed with four swivels. She was taken into Beverly. This may have been the sloop Success (Hitch), 50 tons, bound from Halifax to Boston with provisions. She was tried in the middle admiralty court on 21 March 1776.

[NDAR, II, 1267-1268; NDAR, III, 47-48, 96, 126; Faibisy, A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels . . ., in NDAR, X, 1201-1210]

Revised 10 August 2009