Name of Vessel:

Success

Master of Vessel:

John York

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

31 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire

Captor:

HM Frigate Amazon

Home Port:

From What Port:

North Yarmouth

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Firewood

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

“Rebels”

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[scuttled]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Success (John York) was bound from North Yarmouth, [Massachusetts] to Boston, Massachusetts with a cargo of firewood. She was captured by HM Frigate Amazon (Captain Maximilian Jacobs) on 31 July 1777, off the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire. She was scuttled and sunk.

[“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]