Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[January] 1781

Place of Capture:

Off Charleston, South Carolina

Captor:

Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine Ariel

Home Port:

From What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

To What Port:

Charleston, South Carolina

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine Ariel (Commander Matthew Lawler) was returning to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the West Indies about January 1781. Off Charleston, South Carolina she captured an un-named schooner, bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Charleston. Her subsequent fate is unknown.

[The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser [Philadelphia], Saturday, February 17, 1781]