Name of Vessel:

Hazard

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

19 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Egg Harbor, New Jersey

Captor:

HM Frigate Mermaid

Home Port:

From What Port:

Cork, Ireland

To What Port:

New York, New York

Cargo:

Oats

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[driven ashore]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The Connecticut Privateer Sloop Lyon (Commander Timothy Shaler) was operating off the entrance to New York  in the early spring of 1777. About 17 or 18 April 1777, Lyon captured the Experiment, a British store ship bound from Cork, Ireland to New York, with a cargo of coal, off Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The Hazard, bound from Cork to New York, was captured and brought in to Egg Harbor, New Jersey. On 19 April HM Frigate Mermaid appeared off Egg Harbor. Mermaid re-captured the Experiment, and claimed credit for re-capturing the Hazard, although she was driven ashore and destroyed. Mermaid also claimed credit for the Lyon, which she ran ashore near Egg Harbor.

[NRAR, 380; NDAR, VIII, 486-487 and 487 note, 1053-1063; IX, 179 and note; X, 589-590]