Name of Vessel:

Hannah

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

May 1777

Place of Capture:

In the Bay of Fundy

Captor:

HM Sloop Vulture

Home Port:

From What Port:

Machias, Massachusetts [Maine]

To What Port:

Cargo:

Lumber

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

Into What Port:

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Hannah was outward bound from Machias, Massachusetts [Maine] with a cargo of lumber. She was captured in May 1777, off the Bay of Fundy, by HM Sloop Vulture and sent into Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

[NDAR, XI, 184-185; “List of Vessels seized, destroyed or retaken by the American Squadron between the 25^th of October 1777, and the 28^th of September 1778, according to the Returns received by the Vice Admiral the Viscount Howe, exclusive of those seized or destroyed by His Majesty’s Ships in Chesapeake Bay, and on the Parts of the Coast of North America to the Southward thereof, of which a Return was made on the 23^rd of April 1778,” in The London Gazette, Saturday, November 21, to Tuesday, November 24, 1778]