Name of Vessel:

Harlequin

Master of Vessel:

Stephen Snell

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[15] September 1778

Place of Capture:

Off the North Carolina coast

Captor:

North Carolina Privateer Brig Bellona

Home Port:

New York, New York

From What Port:

New York, New York

To What Port:

 

Cargo:

 

Tonnage:

 

Battery:

six guns, four brass cabrons and eight swivels

Crew:

 

Owners:

 

Prizemaster:

 

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Newbern, North Carolina

Into What Port:

Newbern, North Carolina

Date Arrived:

7 October 1778

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: North Carolina Privateer Brig Bellona (Commander [Sylvanus] Pendleton) was at sea in September 1778. She met the British Privateer Sloop Harlequin (Stephen Snell), out of New York, was met while cruising off the North Carolina coast. Harlequin was armed with  six guns, four brass cabrons and eight swivels. Bellona captured the privateer and discovered she had taken two American vessels. With the number of prisoners now exceeding Pendleton’s crew he escorted the last two prizes into New Bern, arriving on 7 October 1778.

[The Pennsylvania Evening Post [Philadelphia], Friday, October 23, 1778, datelined Baltimore, October 6; Kell, Jean Bruyere (ed.), North Carolina's Coastal Cartaret County During the American Revolution 1765-1785, ERA Press: Greenville, North Carolina, 1975, p. 68]

Posted 11 November 2009