Name of Vessel:

Revenge

Master of Vessel:

Ebenezer Lewis

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

22 June 1777

Place of Capture:

Sheepscut River, Massachusetts [Maine]

Captor:

HM Frigate Milford

Home Port:

From What Port:

Pownalborough, Massachusetts [Maine]

To What Port:

Beverly, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Wood, bark

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Ebenezer Lewis & Co.

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Revenge (Ebenezer Lewis), owned by Ebenezer Lewis & Co., was en route from Pownalborough, Massachusetts [Maine] to Beverly, Massachusetts with a cargo of wood and bark. On 22 June 1777 Revenge was in the Sheepscut River in Maine, when she was captured by HM Frigate Milford (Captain William Burnaby). She was sent in to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. According to Howe’s prize list of 28 September 1778, she was captured on 5 June 1777.

[“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; “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]