Name of Vessel:

Charming Jenny [Charming Nelly]

Master of Vessel:

J. Walker

Rig of Vessel:

Snow

Date of Capture:

[15] July 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the Shetland Islands, Scotland

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Ship American Tartar

Home Port:

From What Port:

Memel, Prussia

To What Port:

Workington, England

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[Burned]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Ship American Tartar (Commander John Grimes), about 15 July 1777, captured the snow or brig Charming Jenny [Charming Nelly] (J. Walker, off the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Charming Jenny was bound from Memel, Prussia to Workington, England. Grimes now had fifty-five prisoners aboard the American Tartar. He put most of them aboard the prize Janet and released her as a cartel vessel. Janet arrived at Banff, Scotland on 8 August 1777. Charming Jenny was apparently burned.

[NDAR, IX, 562; AVCR, 67-68]

Revised 20 January 2009