Name of Vessel:

Hiram

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

24 January 1778

Place of Capture:

15 miles ESE of Cabo Corrientes, Cuba

Captor:

HM Frigate Æolus

Home Port:

Falmouth, Massachusetts [Maine]

From What Port:

The Occoys [Les Cayes], Saint-Domingue

To What Port:

[Falmouth, Massachusetts [Maine]]

Cargo:

Molasses

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

11 [total]

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Brig Hiram was sailing from The Occoys [Les Cayes], Saint-Domingue with a cargo of molasses. She was owned in Falmouth, Massachusetts [Maine] and was probably bound for that place. At 0700 Hiram was sighted by HM Frigate Æolus (Captain Christopher Atkins), some fifteen miles east southeast of Cape Coriantes [Cabo Corrientes, Cuba]. Æolus chased Hiram until 1330 when she overtook and captured the brig. Eleven members of Hiram’s crew were removed to the frigate. She was sent into Jamaica.

[NDAR, XI, 205 and note; 448-453 and 455n66]