Name of Vessel:

Franklin

Master of Vessel:

Maddet Engs

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

2 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Charleston, South Carolina

Captor:

HM Brig Hinchinbrook

Home Port:

Newburyport, Massachusetts

From What Port:

Charleston, South Carolina

To What Port:

Bordeaux, France

Cargo:

Rice

Tonnage:

250

Battery:

Crew:

15

Owners:

Jackson and Tracy of Newburyport, Massachusetts

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

St. Johns River, East Florida

Into What Port:

St. Johns River, East Florida

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 250-ton ship Franklin (Maddet Engs; owned by Jackson and Tracy of Newburyport, Massachusetts) was bound from Charleston, South Carolina to Bordeaux, France with a cargo of rice. A crew of fifteen men was aboard. On 2 July 1777 she was captured off Charleston by HM Brig Hinchinbrook (Lieutenant Alexander Ellis). Franklin was sent into the St. Johns River, East Florida [St. Augustine].

[“List of Vessels seized or destroyed by His Majesty’s Ships stationed in Chesapeake Bay, and on the Parts of the American Coast Southward thereof, according to the Accounts transmitted to the Viscount Howe, since the Date of the General Return of Captures made by the American Squadron of the 25^th of October 1777.,” in The London Gazette, Tuesday, June 2, to Saturday, June 6, 1778]