Name of Vessel:

Dolphin

Master of Vessel:

John Field

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

20 January 1777

Place of Capture:

10 miles southeast of Turks Island

Captor:

HM Sloop Badger

Home Port:

From What Port:

Nantucket, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Turks Island, British West Indies

Cargo:

Salt, coffee

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

3 [total]

Ordered Into:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Dolphin (John Field) was bound from Nantucket, Massachusetts to Turks Island, British West Indies, to obtain a load of salt. She had a little coffee aboard. On 20 January 1777, Dolphin was about ten miles southeast of Turks Island when she encountered HM Sloop Badger (Lieutenant Charles Holmes Everitt). Badger seized the sloop, put three men aboard as a prize crew, and her sent into Jamaica, where she was tried and condemned.

[NDAR, VII, 1010-1011; XI, 448-453]