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American Prizes December 1776 |
Name of Vessel:
Hetty [Ketty, Kitty]
Master of Vessel:
Charles Ross
Rig of Vessel:
Snow
Date of Capture:
December 1776
Place of Capture:
Captor:
Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Reprisal
Home Port:
London, England
From What Port:
Gaspee, Nova Scotia
To What Port:
Barbados, British West Indies
Cargo:
Fish, oil
Tonnage:
120
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
Boston, Massachusetts
Into What Port:
Boston, Massachusetts
Date Arrived:
27 December 1776
Date Tried:
28 January 1777
Date Sold:
7 February 1777
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: Snow Hetty (or Kitty, Ketty) (Charles Ross) was a merchant vessel en route from Gaspee, Nova Scotia to Barbadoes in the British West Indies with a cargo of fish and oil. She was captured off Cape North, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia on 15 November 1776 by Continental Navy Ship Alfred (Captain John Paul Jones) and Continental Navy Sloop Providence (Captain Hoysteed Hacker). Jones assigned Acting Lieutenant Joseph Allen (of the Providence) as her prize master and ordered him to proceed for Newport, Rhode Island. On her passage she was recaptured (probably off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts) by HM Frigate Unicorn (Captain John Ford), and then recaptured by the Massachusetts Privateer Brig Reprisal (Commander John Wheelwright). The privateer sent her into Boston, where she arrived on 27 December 1776. She was libeled by the Reprisal's owners on 9 January 1777 and tried on 28 January. Hetty was sold at Avis’s Wharf on 7 February 1777.
[NDAR, VII, 160-161, 183-184, 348, 417, 517-518, 844-845, 906-907, 1005-1007, 1118, 1158; NDAR, VIII, 613]
| Posted 29 July 2011 |
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