Name of Vessel:

Janet

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

[15] July 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the Shetland Islands, Scotland

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Ship American Tartar

Home Port:

Irvine

From What Port:

Norway

To What Port:

Cargo:

Deals, calf skins

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: Massachusetts Privateer Ship American Tartar (Commander John Grimes), about 15 July 1777, captured the ship (or brig)  Janet, owned in Irvine, with a cargo of deals and calf skins. She was captured off the Shetland Islands, inward bound from Norway. Her crew was removed and detained aboard the American Tartar, as were some 800 calf skins. Janet was kept in company with the raider for the time being. Grimes now had fifty-five prisoners aboard the American Tartar. He put most of them, including the skipper and crew of the Royal Bounty, aboard the Janet and released her as a cartel vessel. Janet arrived at Banff, Scotland on 8 August 1777.

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

Revised 20 January 2009