Name of Vessel:

True Blue

Master of Vessel:

Commander Laurence Furlong

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

27 January 1778

Place of Capture:

60 miles east northeast of the southern part of St. Georges Bank

Captor:

HM Frigates Apollo and Venus

Home Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

From What Port:

Casco Bay, Massachusetts [Maine]

To What Port:

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

10x

Crew:

45

Owners:

Cushing & White [John Cushing and Samuel White] of Boston, Massachusetts

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Newport, Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Newport, Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Schooner True Blue (Commander Laurence Furlong) sailed from Boston, probably in early January 1778, and proceeded to Casco Bay, Massachusetts [Maine], perhaps to recruit additional crew members. True Blue sailed from Casco Bay on 26 January. The next day she was some sixty miles east northeast of the southern part of St. Georges Bank when she had the misfortune to be sighted by HM Frigates Apollo (Captain Philemon Pownoll) and Venus (Captain William P. Williams) at 1100. Both British frigates gave chase and Venus ran True Blue down at 1300. The British reported her as having ten guns and forty-five men. Apollo took aboard twenty-one prisoners, and Venus apparently took the rest. True Blue was sent in to Newport, Rhode Island.

[NDAR, XI, 212 and note, 710 and note]