Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

17 June 1775

Place of Capture:

Newport Harbor, Newport, Rhode Island

Captor:

Newport citizens

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Newport, Rhode Island

Cargo:

Provisions

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Newport, Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Newport, Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

17 June 1775

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: This vessel was one of five vessels with provisions that the townspeople of Newport “recaptured” from the British. They had been detained on 16 June 1775 by HM Frigate Rose and HM Sloop Swan in Newport Harbor. After the two British vessels sailed on the morning of 17 June (withdrawing their prize crews) the townspeople boarded the vessels and brought them to the wharves, where they were unloaded and “dismantled.” Captain Wallace of the Rose claimed the owners had agreed to ship provisions to the British.

[NDAR, I, 705, 720-721, 747]

Posted 3 June 2008