Name of Vessel:

Epribeth [Elizabeth]

Master of Vessel:

Swaine

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

14 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HM Frigate Milford

Home Port:

From What Port:

St. Pierre, St. Pierre and Miquelon

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The sloop Epribeth [Elizabeth] (Swaine) was bound from St. Pierre, St. Pierre and Miquelon to Boston, Massachusetts. On 14 June 1777 she was captured by HM Frigate Milford and sent into Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[“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]