Name of Vessel:

Francis

Master of Vessel:

 

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

27 December 1778

Place of Capture:

[Off the coast of Spain]

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Brig Vengeance

Home Port:

From What Port:

 

To What Port:

 

Cargo:

Fish

Tonnage:

 

Battery:

 

Crew:

 

Owners:

 

Prizemaster:

 

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

 

Into What Port:

 

Date Arrived:

 

Date Tried:

 

Date Sold:

 

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The brig Francis, with a cargo of fish, was seemingly sailing off the Spanish coast in December 1778. She encountered the Massachusetts Privateer Brig Vengeance (Commander Wingate Newman) on 27 December and was captured. Francis 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