Name of Vessel:

Proteus

Master of Vessel:

Edward Standing

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner [Sloop]

Date of Capture:

[April] 1779

Place of Capture:

Captor:

[unknown British vessel

Home Port:

From What Port:

North Carolina

To What Port:

West Indies

Cargo:

Tobacco, tar

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

New London, Connecticut

Date Arrived:

[May] 1779

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

Yes

Comments: Schooner Proteus (Edward Standing), a pilot boat built schooner, was bound from North Carolina to the West Indies with tobacco and tar as her cargo. She was captured by the British and then re-captured by the American Revenue, perhaps about April 1779. The privateer brought her into New London on 18 May.

[Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 51-53; The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer [New London], Thursday, May 27, 1779]