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American Prizes October 1776 |
Name of Vessel:
Nancy and Mary
Master of Vessel:
Lequest
Rig of Vessel:
Date of Capture:
[October] 1776
Place of Capture:
Captor:
[unknown] American Privateer
Home Port:
From What Port:
Newfoundland
To What Port:
Bilbao, Spain
Cargo:
[Fish]
Tonnage:
Battery:
Crew:
Owners:
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
Into What Port:
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
[released]
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: The vessel Nancy and Mary (Lequest) was bound from Newfoundland to Bilbao, Spain, presumably with a cargo of fish. About October 1776 she was captured by an unknown American privateer. The privateer had previously captured several prizes and could not spare sufficient men to make up a prize crew. The Nancy and Mary was plundered and then released. She eventually got to Jersey, in the Channel Isles, from where the London papers published her story on 10 December 1776.
[NDAR, VII, 786]
| Posted 14 October 2011 |
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