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British Prizes June 1779 |
Name of Vessel:
Adventure
Master of Vessel:
Commander Joseph L. Tripp
Rig of Vessel:
Brigantine
Date of Capture:
[15 June] 1779
Place of Capture:
Captor:
[unknown]
Home Port:
Boston, Massachusetts
From What Port:
To What Port:
Cargo:
Tobacco
Tonnage:
95
Battery:
8x
Crew:
30 [nominal]
Owners:
Nathaniel Greene et al of Boston, Massachusetts
Prize master:
Prize crew:
Ordered Into:
Into What Port:
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: The 95-ton Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure was commissioned under Commander Joseph Tripp of Boston, Massachusetts on 15 January 1779. She was listed as having a battery of eight guns and a crew of thirty men. The owners were listed as Nathaniel Greene and others. Adventure was captured by the British in 1779. She is listed in the High Court of Admiralty records as an American “tobacco” vessel, commanded by Joseph L. Tripp. The placement of her capture in June 1779 is arbitrary.
[Suffolk Deeds, Liber XI. Boston: Rockwell & Churchill Press, 1900, 45; Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 67-68; HCA 32/262/9/1-5]