Name of Vessel:

Elizabeth

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Rig of Vessel:

Brigantine

Date of Capture:

3 December 1778

Place of Capture:

[Off the coast of Spain]

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Brig Vengeance

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Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The brigantine Elizabeth was seemingly sailing off the Spanish coast in December 1778. She encountered the Massachusetts Privateer Brig Vengeance (Commander Wingate Newman) on 3 December and was captured. Elizabeth seems to have been sold in Spain.

[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