Name of Vessel:

Le Bien Heureux

Master of Vessel:

Gaspard Giurlavi [Guerlavais]

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

15 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the North Carolina coast

Captor:

HM Frigate Brune and HM Sloop Merlin

Home Port:

From What Port:

Martinique, French West Indies

To What Port:

Cargo:

Wine, dry goods

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

New York, New York

Date Arrived:

New York, New York

Date Tried:

1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The brig Le Bien Heureux (Gaspard Giurlavi [Guerlavais]) was bound from Martinique, French West Indies with a cargo of wine and dry goods. She was captured by HM Frigate Brune (Captain James Ferguson) and HM Sloop Merlin (Commander William C. Burnaby) on 15 or 16 April 1777, off the North Carolina coast. Le Bien Heureux was sent into New York, New York where she arrived on 30 April. She was tried and condemned in the Vice-Admiralty court in 1777.

[NDAR, VIII, 486, 942, 956-957, 997-998, 1053-1063; HCA 32/282/10/1-81; The London Gazette, Saturday, February 6, to Tuesday, February 9, 1779; The London Gazette, Saturday, September 2, to Tuesday, September 5, 1780]