Name of Vessel:

Industry

Master of Vessel:

Jacob Allen

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

23 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the North Carolina coast

Captor:

HM Sloop Merlin

Home Port:

From What Port:

Winyaw, South Carolina

To What Port:

Cargo:

Rice

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[burned]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The Industry (Jacob Allen) was bound from Winyaw, South Carolina with a cargo of rice. On 23 April 1777 she was captured by HM Sloop Merlin (Commander William C. Burnaby). Industry was burned. Her crew were probably among the twenty-nine or forty-two prisoners released at Cape Fear, North Carolina on 2 May 1777.

[NDAR, VIII, 942, 956-957, 997-998, 1053-1063]