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American Prizes July 1781 |
Name of Vessel:
Sword Fish
Master of Vessel:
Rig of Vessel:
Schooner
Date of Capture:
July 1781
Place of Capture:
Long Island Sound
Captor:
Connecticut Privateer Galley Adventure and Connecticut Privateer Boat Revenge
Home Port:
From What Port:
To What Port:
Cargo:
Tonnage:
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
Hartford, Connecticut
Into What Port:
Hartford, Connecticut
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
30 August 1781
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: Connecticut Privateer Galley Adventure (Commander Samuel Smith, Jr.), in July 1781, captured the British schooner Sword Fish in Long Island Sound, assisted by the Connecticut Privateer Boat Revenge (Commander Amos Judson). She was a recapture.Sword Fish was taken into Hartford, Connecticut, and tried and condemned on 30 August 1781.
[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 49, 210]