Name of Vessel:

Adventure

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

[May] 1777

Place of Capture:

New Providence, Bahama Islands

Captor:

HM Schooner Tender Comet [Aeolus]

Home Port:

New London, Connecticut

From What Port:

To What Port:

Cargo:

Salt

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

[June] 1777

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Ship Adventure, owned in New London, Connecticut, was loading a cargo of salt at Harbor Island, near New Providence, in the Bahama Islands, in May 1777. She was evidently captured there by HM Schooner Tender Comet, which may have belonged to HM Frigate Æolus (Captain Christopher Atkins). Two other prizes were also detained by the Comet at New Providence. When intelligence of these captures reached the Americans, two South Carolina privateers, Vixen and Swift, attempted to capture the Comet and free the prizes in a raid on 1 June 1777. The Americans were driven off when Æolus appeared in the offing. On 17 June the tender sailed for Jamaica, British West Indies, with the prizes. Adventure was subsequently tried and condemned at Jamaica.

[NDAR, IX, 146 and notes, 159-161, 193-195; XI, 448-453]