Name of Vessel:

Atlantic

Master of Vessel:

Charles Morris

Rig of Vessel:

Snow

Date of Capture:

[July] 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Connecticut Privateer Sloop Wooster

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

150

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Massachusetts

Into What Port:

Massachusetts

Date Arrived:

[October] 1777

Date Tried:

11 November 1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 150-ton snow Atlantic (Charles Morris) was captured about July 1777 by Connecticut Privateer Sloop Wooster (Commander Enoch Staples). Atlantic was libeled on 23 October 1777, with trial set for Plymouth, Massachusetts on 11 November 1777.

[NDAR, X, 242 and note]

Revised 20 January 2009