Name of Vessel:

Pembroke

Master of Vessel:

[Bunker]

Rig of Vessel:

Brigantine

Date of Capture:

27 June 1776

Place of Capture:

Off Fire Island Inlet, New York

Captor:

Continental Army Sloop General Schuyler, New York Navy Sloop Montgomery

Home Port:

Nantucket, Massachusetts

From What Port:

Brazil (whaling grounds)

To What Port:

Nantucket, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Whalebone and whaleoil

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prizemaster:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Fire Island Inlet, New York

Into What Port:

Fire Island Inlet, New York

Date Arrived:

27 June 1776

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Brigantine Pembroke had sailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to the whaling grounds off Brazil, and was returning home after stopping at Barbadoes. On 22 June 1776 when she fell in with HM Frigate Greyhound (Captain Arcibald Dickson), sixty-nine miles southeast of Sandy Hook, at 1400, and was captured. Dickson put a petty officer and six men aboard as a prize crew and ordered her to keep company. This she did until 24 June, when Greyhound was twenty-seven miles east of Sandy Hook. At 0600 she parted company, with three other prizes that Greyhound had captured. On 27 June Pembroke was recaptured by New York Navy Sloop Montgomery (Captain William Rogers) and Continental Army Sloop General Schuyler (Captain Charles Pond), and taken into Fire Island Inlet, New York. The prisoners were forwarded to headquarters, and the New York Marine Committee sent William Mercier down to see about the vessels and cargoes on 28 June. Mercier was to unlade the vessels, transport the cargoes to Huntington by wagon, along with the necessary papers for condemnation. The vessels were to be left at Fire Island Inlet, as it was unsafe to try to take them around the east end of Long Islandto New York City. The brigantine was left at Long Island when that place fell, but part of her cargo was removed to Milford, Connecticut about 3 September 1776. The cargo was libeled on 6 November 1776 at New Haven, with trial set for the second Wednesday in December. According to the libel, Montgomery was the sole captor.

[NDAR, V, 626, 713 and note, 770 and note, 789, 789-790, 790, 853-855; VII, 62-63 and 63 note; 9, 219-220 and 220 note]

Revised 10 August 2009