Name of Vessel:

Success

Master of Vessel:

Siphonis Fisher [J. Fisher]

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

2 June 1777

Place of Capture:

6 miles southeast of Halfway Rock, Massachusetts [Maine]

Captor:

HM Frigate Ambuscade

Home Port:

From What Port:

Camden, Penobscot River, Massachusetts [Maine]

To What Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

Cargo:

Wood

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Petty officer

Prize crew:

4 [total]

Ordered Into:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: On 2 June 1777 HM Frigate Ambuscade (Captain John Macartney) was patrolling off Halfway Rock, Massachusetts [Maine]. The weather was hazy and moderate. At 0500 a sail was seen to the east and, at 0600, Ambuscade’s barge was sent off, manned and armed, with a lieutenant. At 0630 the boarding party secured the vessel: the sloop Success (Siphonis Fisher [J. Fisher]), bound from Camden, in the Penobscot River, Massachusetts [Maine] to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of wood. When the barge returned a petty officer and three men were put on the Success and she was taken in tow. The barge was then sent after another sloop. At 1430 the barge boarded the second sloop: the Two Brothers (George Maxwell), bound from Boston to the Kennebec River, Massachusetts [Maine] in ballast. Six men of her crew were removed and a petty officer and four men went aboard the Two Brothers. The Two Brothers was then brought alongside the Success and part of the wood transferred from Success to the Two Brothers. The two prizes were then taken in tow. They were eventually sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[NDAR, IX, 4 and notes; XI, 184-185 and 186 note]