Name of Vessel:

York

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Date of Capture:

21 April 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the North Carolina coast

Captor:

HM Frigate Brune

Home Port:

From What Port:

Cape Fear, North Carolina

To What Port:

Cargo:

Pitch, tar

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prizecrew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[burned]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The American vessel York was bound from Cape Fear, North Carolina with a cargo of pitch and tar. She was captured by HM Frigate Brune (Captain James Ferguson) on 21 April 1777, off the North Carolina coast. York 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]