Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

[April] 1777

Place of Capture:

Lake Borgne or Lake Ponchartrain

Captor:

HM Sloop West Florida

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tar

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Pensacola, West Florida

Into What Port:

Pensacola, West Florida

Date Arrived:

[April] 1777

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

[wrecked on Rose Island]

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: HM Sloop West Florida (Lieutenant George Burdon) was patrolling Lakes Borgne and Ponchartrain in April 1777. He captured three vessels, two with tobacco and wine and one with pine tar. All three were sent to Pensacola, West Florida, and probably arrived in April. One was lost on Rose Island, West Florida, but no lives were lost. The Spanish later claimed these were Spanish property.

[NDAR, VIII, 968; IX, 822-823]