Name of Vessel:

Timoleon

Master of Vessel:

Joseph Blaid

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

12 April 1777

Place of Capture:

48 miles southeast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Frigates Diamond and Greyhound

Home Port:

From What Port:

Bordeaux, France

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Lead, gunpowder, bale goods

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

12

Owners:

Prize master:

Mate

Prize crew:

8 [total]

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

18 April 1777

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The brig Timoleon (Joseph Blaid) was bound from Bordeaux, France with a cargo of lead, gunpowder and bale goods. On 12 April 1777 HM Frigates Greyhound (Captain Archibald Dickson) and Diamond (Captain Charles Feilding) were forty-eight miles southeast of Cape Ann, on the southern part of Massachusetts Bay. At 0400 they sighted a sail to the northeast and made sail. At 0500 Greyhound started firing at the chase. It took eleven 9-pounders to bring her to heave to at 0530. She was the Timoleon. The British discovered that Timoleon had an all French crew with an American pilot aboard. At 0700 Diamond came down and joined her consort. In the afternoon Greyhound sent a mate and a midshipman on the prize and Diamond furnished six men to make up the prize crew. Twelve prisoners were removed to the Greyhound, six of which were sent to the Diamond. At 1900 the prize parted company.

[NDAR, VIII, 324-325 and 325 note, 395-396 and 396 note, 997 and note, 1053-1063]