Name of Vessel:

Penguin

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

[January] 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HM Sloop Hawke

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

8 February 1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Brig Penguin was captured by HM Sloop Hawke (Commander Robert Palliser Cooper) and sent into Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, probably in January 1777. Penguin was said to be a re-capture. She was condemned in Roseau on 8 February 1777.

[NDAR, X, 722-724]