Name of Vessel:

Dolly

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

19 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Southwest of the Sambro Island Lighthouse, Nova Scotia

Captor:

HM Brig Victor

Home Port:

From What Port:

Newburyport, Massachusetts

To What Port:

St. Pierre, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon

Cargo:

Turpentine, pitch, tar, tobacco

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Midshipman

Prize crew:

3 [total]

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

11 August 1777

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The schooner Dolly was bound to St. Pierre, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon from Newburyport, Massachusetts on 19 July 1777 with a cargo of turpentine, pitch, tar and tobacco. Dolly was sighted at 0800 by HM Brig Victor (Lieutenant Michael Hyndman) on that day. Victor was then fifteen miles southeast of Sambro Island lighthouse (Nova Scotia), and began chasing. The chase continued all day. At 1600, the Dolly had run close inshore. She now turned to the east. Victor followed her and fired two broadsides and several bow chasers (twenty 6-pounders in all) at Dolly. The Americans finally surrendered and hove to.  A midshipman and two men went aboard as a prize crew and she was sent off to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dolly was tried and condemned on 11 August 1777. In Howe’s prize list of 28 September 1778, she is credited to HM Sloop Cabot.

[NDAR, IX, 296 and note; XI, 184-185; “List of Vessels seized, destroyed or retaken by the American Squadron between the 25^th of October 1777, and the 28^th of September 1778, according to the Returns received by the Vice Admiral the Viscount Howe, exclusive of those seized or destroyed by His Majesty’s Ships in Chesapeake Bay, and on the Parts of the Coast of North America to the Southward thereof, of which a Return was made on the 23^rd of April 1778,” in The London Gazette, Saturday, November 21, to Tuesday, November 24, 1778]