Name of Vessel:

Brigantine

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

[January] 1778

Place of Capture:

Captor:

British Privateer Schooner Active

Home Port:

[Newburyport, Massachusetts]

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tobacco

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Guernsey, Channel Isles

Into What Port:

Guernsey, Channel Isles

Date Arrived:

[January] 1778

Date Tried:

[February] 1778

Date Sold:

[February] 1778

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Ship Brigantine was a vessel recently built at Newburport, Massachusetts. She was captured, probably about January 1778, by the British Privateer Schooner Active (Peter Agnew), a small vessel of eight guns and forty men, operating out of Guernsey, Channel Isles. Brigantine had a cargo of tobacco aboard and was presumably en route to France. She was sent into Guernsey and had been tried and put up for sale before 25 February 1778. Her cargo was valued at £17000.

[NDAR, XI, 1045]