Name of Vessel:

Adventure

Master of Vessel:

William Ricker

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

6 January 1778

Place of Capture:

219 miles NE of St. Martins, Netherlands West Indies

Captor:

HM Sloop Grasshopper

Home Port:

From What Port:

Virginia

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tobacco

Tonnage:

50

Battery:

Crew:

7

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Antigua, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Antigua, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 50-ton sloop Adventure (William Ricker) was bound from Carolina or Virginia to Martinique, French West Indies, with a cargo of tobacco. On the morning of 6 January 1778 she was some three hundred miles to the northwest of St. Martins, Netherlands West Indies when she was sighted, at 0600, by HM Sloop Grasshopper (Commander William Truscott). Truscott saw her in the northeast, steering to the southwest. After an all day chase Grasshopper ran her down at 1600, firing two shots to stop the sloop. She was sent into Antigua, British West Indies.

[NDAR, XI, 49-50 and 50 note, 644-645]