Name of Vessel:

Rose

Master of Vessel:

Solomon Bunker

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

2 April 1777

Place of Capture:

18°10'N [near Antigua]

Captor:

HM Brig Antigua

Home Port:

[Nantucket, Massachusetts]

From What Port:

Nantucket, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Sint Maarten, Netherlands West Indies

Cargo:

Fish, lumber

Tonnage:

65

Battery:

Crew:

9 [total]

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Antigua, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Antigua, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

2 April 1777

Date Tried:

24 April 1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 65-ton schooner Rose (Solomon Bunker) sailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts on 10 March 1777, bound to St. Martin’s [Sint Maarten], Netherlands West Indies with a cargo of lumber and fish. Rose had a crew of nine men aboard. She was captured in the West Indies, at 18°10'N by HM Brig Antigua (Lieutenant William Swiney) at 0500 on 2 April 1777. Antigua sent a prize crew of four men aboard and sent her into Antigua, British West Indies. Rose arrived at St. John’s, Antigua the same day. Rose was tried and condemned on 24 April.

[NDAR, VIII, 259 and note, 490-491; XI, 124-130; The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, Friday, June 6, 1777, datelined St. John’s, April 5]