Name of Vessel:

Hero

Master of Vessel:

Jos. Feribault

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

30 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia

Captor:

HM Frigate Mermaid

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Saint-Domingue

Cargo:

Lumber, fish, candles

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Hubbard, Green & Co.

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The sloop Hero (Jos. Feribault; owned by Hubbard, Green & Co.) was bound from Boston, Massachusetts to Saint-Domingue with a cargo of lumber, fish and candles. On 30 July 1777, off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, she was captured by HM Frigate Mermaid and sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[“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]