Name of Vessel:

Triton

Master of Vessel:

James Tiletson [Tileson]

Rig of Vessel:

Brigantine

Date of Capture:

7 January 1777

Place of Capture:

43°52'N, 33 miles NW of Cape Ortegal, Portugal

Captor:

HM Frigate Thetis

Home Port:

Newburyport, Massachusetts

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Bilbao, Spain

Cargo:

Fish, oil, candles, beeswax, furs

Tonnage:

120

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Plymouth, England

Into What Port:

Plymouth, England

Date Arrived:

19 January 1777

Date Tried:

1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 120-ton brigantine Triton (James Tiletson [John Chandler]) was owned in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She sailed from Boston, Massachusetts on 13 December 1776, bound for Bilbao, Spain with a cargo of fish, oil, candles, beeswax and furs. On 7 January 1777 she was at 43°52'N, 33 miles NW of Cape Ortegal, Portugal, when she fell in with HM Frigate Thetis (Captain Mitchell Graham). Triton was captured and taken in to Plymouth, England, arriving with the Thetis on 19 January. She was tried and condemned in the High Court of Admiralty in 1777. An officer aboard the Triton, John Chandler, escaped from prison and arrived at Dunkerque, France in March 1778.

[NDAR, VIII, 536; XI, 1057 and note [where it is inferred that John Chandler was skipper of the Triton]; HCA 32/464/6/1-17]