Name of Vessel:

Thomas and Elizabeth

Master of Vessel:

Anthony Watson

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

28 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Forty-eight miles east northeast of the Naze, Norway

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Ship American Tartar

Home Port:

From What Port:

St. Petersburg, Russia

To What Port:

Leith, Scotland

Cargo:

Deals and iron

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

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, Scotland with a cargo of lumber. About a half hour later the brig Fanny (Joseph Mills), from Christiana to Berwick 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 another prize, 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, England on 2 August 1777 with the prisoners.

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

Revised 20 January 2009