Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

7 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Frigate Amazon

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Lumber

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[burned]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: This unknown sloop was bound from Boston, Massachusetts to Nantucket Island, Massachusetts with a cargo of lumber. She was captured off Cape Cod, Massachusetts on 7 June 1777 by HM Frigate Amazon (Captain Maximilian Jacobs), and was burned.

[“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]