Name of Vessel:

Sally

Master of Vessel:

P. Bulkley

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

16 June 1777

Place of Capture:

In Sakonnet Passage, Rhode Island

Captor:

HMS Chatham [tender]

Home Port:

From What Port:

Connecticut

To What Port:

Newport, Rhode Island

Cargo:

Corn, bread

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

P. Bulkley

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Rhode Island

Into What Port:

Rhode Island

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Sally (P. Bulkley; also owner of the sloop) was bound from Connecticut to Newport, Rhode Island on 16 June 1777 with a cargo of corn and biscuit (bread). She was captured in Sakonnet Passage, Rhode Island by a tender to HMS Chatham and sent into Rhode Island.

[“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]