Name of Vessel:

Hope

Master of Vessel:

John Jutua

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

18 June 1777

Place of Capture:

In Boston Bay, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Frigate Ambuscade

Home Port:

From What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

To What Port:

St. Pierre, Martinique [Saint-Domingue]

Cargo:

Lumber, fish

Tonnage:

30

Battery:

Crew:

4

Owners:

John Jutua

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 30-ton sloop Hope (John Jutua) was bound from Boston, Massachusetts to St. Pierre, Martinique (or to Saint-Domingue) with a cargo of lumber and fish. She was sailing with a crew of four men and was owned by Jutua. On 18 June 1777 Hope was captured in Boston Bay by HM Frigate Ambuscade (Captain John Macartney) and sent into Halifax.

[NDAR, XI, 184-185; “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]