Name of Vessel:

Cornwallis Galley

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

[January] 1781

Place of Capture:

Off Charleston, South Carolina

Captor:

Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine Ariel

Home Port:

Charleston, South Carolina

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Released

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 the Cornwallis Galley, owned in Charleston. Lawler removed various items of munitions and gear from the Cornwallis Galley and then released her. The munitions and tackle was taken into Philadelphia and sold there on 13 April 1781.

[The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser [Philadelphia], Saturday, April 7, 1781]