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British Prizes
April 1777





Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:


Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

[25] April 1777

Place of Capture:

Cape Henlopen, Delaware

Captor:


Home Port:


From What Port:

South Carolina

To What Port:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Crew:


Owners:


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Ordered Into:


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Date Arrived:


Date Tried:


Date Sold:


Action:

No

Recaptured:

No


Comments: This unidentified sloop was bound from South Carolina for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. About 25 April 1777 she was driven ashore by a British cruiser on Cape Henlopen, Delaware and destroyed.


[NDAR, VIII, 486-487]