Name of Vessel:

Elizabeth

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

8 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Diable Bay, Nova Scotia

Captor:

HM Frigate Mermaid

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Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sighted in Diable Bay, Nova Scotia at 0700 by HM Frigate Mermaid (Captain James Hawker) after Mermaid had just missed capturing an American privateer in Barrington Bay. Hawker sent his boats to examine the Elizabeth and they took possession of her. The date of capture is also given as 5 June 1778 in Howe’s prize list of 28 September 1778. According to this list she was taken off Mount Desert Island, Massachusetts [Maine] and sent into Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

[NDAR, IX, 51-52 and 52 note; “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]