Name of Vessel:

Peggy

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

28 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Fifteen miles west southwest of the Naze, Norway

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Ship American Tartar

Home Port:

From What Port:

Memel, Prussia

To What Port:

Glasgow, Scotland

Cargo:

Lumber

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), on 28 July 1777, some fifteen miles west southwest of the Naze, captured the ship Peggy, from Memel, Prussia to Glasgow with a cargo of lumber. About a half hour later the brig Fanny (Joseph Mills), from Christiania [Oslo], Norway, to Berwick, Scotland, with a cargo of deals, was secured. At 2200 the ship Thomas and Elizabeth (Anthony Watson), St. Petersburg, Russia to Leith, Scotland, with a cargo of deals and iron, was captured, forty-eight miles east northeast of the Naze. After plundering the Fanny and the Thomas and Elizabeth, Grimes put the crews aboard the Peggy and released her as a cartel vessel. She arrived at Whitby on 2 August 1777 with the prisoners.

[NDAR, IX, 549-550, 564-565 and 565 note]

Revised 20 January 2009