Name of Vessel:

Hope

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

30 October 1776

Place of Capture:

Captor:

Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Hawke

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

[Newburyport, Massachusetts]

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

Yes

Comments: Brig Hope was captured on 30 October 1776 by Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Hawke (Commander John Lee). She was ordered into a northern port, but was sighted by HM Frigate Lizard (Captain Thomas Mackenzie) in the morning of 11 December 1776, some thirty miles southwest of Cape Negro, Nova Scotia, and recaptured. Lizard put an acting Lieutenant and six men aboard. She was eventually sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[NDAR, VII, 444 and note, 730-731, 678-679, 696, 698, 698, 706; VIII, 163]

Posted 5 September 2011

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