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British Prizes June 1779 |
Name of Vessel:
Adriana [Ariadne]
Master of Vessel:
Commander Joseph Vesey
Rig of Vessel:
Sloop
Date of Capture:
[June] 1779
Place of Capture:
Captor:
[unknown] British vessel
Home Port:
Annapolis, Maryland
From What Port:
To What Port:
Cargo:
Tonnage:
60
Battery:
9x
Crew:
47 [nominal]
Owners:
Joseph Vesey and North & Trescot of Charlestown, South Carolina
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
[New York, New York]
Into What Port:
[New York, New York]
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: Maryland Privateer Sloop Adriana (Commander Joseph Vesey) was commissioned on 8 October 1778, out of Annapolis, Maryland. Adriana was listed measuring 60 tons, and as having a battery of nine guns, with six swivel guns, and a crew of forty-seven men. Her owners are given as Vesey and North & Trescott of South Carolina. Adriana was captured by the British in 1779. She appears in the High Court of Admiralty records as the Ariadne, described as an American merchant vessel deserted by most of her crew.
[NRAR, 220; Egerton, Douglas R., He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 14-15. According to NRAR, 220, he was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts; Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, April 1, 1778 through October 26, 1779, 21:215. Also listed in Emmons, 127; HCA 32/273/8/1-2]