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British Prizes June 1781 |
Name of Vessel:
Atalanta
Master of Vessel:
Rig of Vessel:
Ship
Date of Capture:
7 June 1781
Place of Capture:
Off Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Captor:
HM Frigates Assurance, Charlestown, Amphitrite and HM Sloop Vulture
Home Port:
From What Port:
To What Port:
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Prize master:
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Ordered Into:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Into What Port:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Date Arrived:
Date Tried:
Date Sold:
Action:
No
Recaptured:
No
Comments: “ATLANTA sloop of war a recapture July 21st 1781 Hezekiah Welsh second Lieutenant on Board the Alliance being duly sworn Deposeth that being on a Cruize in said ship on or about the 30th May last in Lat 42 Long 60 they fell in with His Majesty's Sloop of War the Atalanta which they took after engaging her 3 Hours and a Half that the Captain of the Alliance ordered the Dep to take possession of the Atalanta and proceed with her to Boston New England that on their passage thither the 7th June last being near Cape Cod they fell in with His Majesty's ships of War the Assurance Charlestown Am phy trite and Vulture which retook the said sloop Atalanta put a British officer & Seamen on board her & sent her safe into this Port of Halifax Francis Downing being duly sworn Deposeth that he belonged to the Sloop of War the Atalanta and was Servant to the Doctor of her that being on a cruize from St John's in Newfoundland on or about the 28th day of May last they fell in with an American Frigate called the Alliance which they engaged 7 Glasses & a half that the Alliance being greatly superior in Force to the Atalanta having Forty Guns sixes nines & twelves the Atalanta after losing Twenty four men killed & wounded was obliged to strike that after the Alliance had shifted Hands with the Atalanta she ordered the Atalanta for Boston in New England & shaped her Course for Philadelphia that three days after parting company with the Alliance the Atalanta fell in with the Assurance Charlestown Amphy trite & Vulture which ships retook the Atalanta & sent her into this port The prisoners taken by the Alliance were put on a brigantine taken at Newfoundland and sent into Halifax.”