Name of Vessel:

Olive

Master of Vessel:

Nathaniel Wildbore

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

21 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HM Armed Sloop Haerlem

Home Port:

From What Port:

Dartmouth, Massachusetts

To What Port:

North Carolina

Cargo:

Ballast

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Olive (Nathaniel Wildbore) was sailing out of Dartmouth, Massachusetts bound for North Carolina in ballast. On 21 April 1777 she was captured by HM Armed Sloop Haerlem (Lieutenant John Knight) and sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia. Haerlem was en route from New York, New York to Halifax at the time.

[NDAR, VIII, 997 and note; “The following is a List of Vessels seized as Prizes, and of Recaptures made, by the American Squadron, between the 27^th of May and 24^th of October, 1777, according to the Returns received by Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Howe,” in The London Chronicle, Tuesday, December 2, to Saturday, December 6, 1777]