Name of Vessel:

Happy Return

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

20 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Continental Navy Cutter Revenge

Home Port:

From What Port:

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

To What Port:

Scotland

Cargo:

Gin, brandy, tea

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:

On 20 July 1777 Continental Navy Cutter Revenge (Captain Gustavus Conyngham) captured a a “Scotch smuggling Sloop, which we Plundered of some Gin for Stores and Burned. . .” She was the sloop Happy Return, bound from Rotterdam, The Netherlands to Scotland, with a cargo of gin, brandy cordials and tea. Another source indicates she was scuttled.

[NDAR, IX, 537 and note, 599-601; X, 197-199 and 200 notes, 966 and 967 note]

Revised 20 January 2009