Name of Vessel:

[unknown]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

8 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Townsend, Massachusetts [Boothbay, Maine]

Captor:

HM Frigate Milford

Home Port:

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Wood

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[driven ashore]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: This unknown sloop was one of three coasting wood sloops taken off Boothbay, Maine by an unknown British cruiser on 8 June 1777. The British records indicate the three were driven ashore in the Sheepscot River, Massachusetts [Maine] by HM Frigate Milford (Captain William Burnaby) on 22 June 1777. The 8 June date seems to be correct. All three bilged and were presumably lost.

[NDAR, IX, 88-89 and 89 note; “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]