Name of Vessel:

Polly

Master of Vessel:

James Lamphear

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

31 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Frigate Unicorn

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

West Indies

Cargo:

Lumber, fish

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

J. Lamphear & Co.

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Polly (James Lamphear; owned by J. Lamphear & Co.) was en route from Boston, Massachusetts to a destination in the West Indies with a cargo of lumber and fish on 31 July 1777. She was captured by HM Frigate Unicorn (Captain William Burnaby) off the Nantucket Shoals and sent into Rhode Island.

[“The following is a List of Vessels seized as Prizes, and of Recaptures made, by the American Squadron, between the 27^th of May and 24^th of October, 1777, according to the Returns received by Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Howe,” in The London Chronicle, Tuesday, December 2, to Saturday, December 6, 1777]