Name of Vessel:

Friendship

Master of Vessel:

Thomas Harmon

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

17 January 1778

Place of Capture:

75 miles southwest of St. George’s Bank

Captor:

HM Frigate Apollo

Home Port:

From What Port:

Casco Bay, Massachusetts [Maine]

To What Port:

Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Cargo:

Lumber

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Burned

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: HM Frigate Apollo (Captain Philemon Pownoll) was on patrol on the morning of 17 January 1778, about seventy-five miles southwest of the southern part of St. George’s Bank. At 0700 she sighted and chased a sail and ran down the prize at 0800: the sloop Friendship (Thomas Harmon). Friendship, owned by Wells & Co., was bound from Casco Bay, Massachusetts [Maine] to Guadeloupe in the French West Indies with a cargo of lumber. The sloop was stripped of her sails, water, and provisions and then burned.

[NDAR, XI, 148-149 and 149 note]