Name of Vessel:

Friendship

Master of Vessel:

William Lankford [Langsford]

Rig of Vessel:

Brig

Date of Capture:

17 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Off the New England coast

Captor:

HMS Raisonable

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Surinam, Netherlands West Indies

Cargo:

Tobacco, lumber, fish, staves

Tonnage:

90

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

New York, New York

Into What Port:

New York, New York

Date Arrived:

[1] July 1777

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The 90-ton brig Friendship (Williams Lankford [Langsford] was bound from Boston, Massachusetts to Surinam, Netherlands West Indies with a cargo of tobacco, lumber, fish and staves. On 17 June 1777, off the New England coast, Friendship was captured by HMS Raisonable (Captain Thomas Fitzherbert), which was sailing from England to America. Her master was reported as a native of Providence, Rhode Island. The prize was sent into New York, New York, arriving about 1 July 1777. Lankford was confined on the prison ship at New York on 20 July 1777.

[NDAR, IX, 191, 220-221, 302; “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]