Name of Vessel:

Sophia

Master of Vessel:

Tinker

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[15] September 1778

Place of Capture:

 

Captor:

North Carolina Privateer Brig Bellona

Home Port:

 

From What Port:

New York, New York

To What Port:

New Providence, Bahama Islands, British West Indies

Cargo:

Dry goods

Tonnage:

 

Battery:

 

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 captured the sloop Sophia (Tinker) bound from New York, New York to New Providence, Bahama Islands, with a cargo of dry goods. She was escorted into Newbern, North Carolina by the Bellona 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