Name of Vessel:

Lamulant [Amulant, Mulint]

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

19 May 1777

Place of Capture:

12 miles southwest of French Key, Bahama Islands

Captor:

HM Frigate Winchelsea

Home Port:

[Bordeaux, France]

From What Port:

Cap Français, Sainte-Domingue

To What Port:

Bordeaux, France [America]

Cargo:

Dry goods

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: HM Frigate Winchelsea (Captain Nathaniel Bateman) was patrolling twelve miles southwest of French Key, Bahama Islands, on 19 May 1777. At 0400 several sail were in sight and Winchelsea began chasing. At 1000 she brought the chase to, and a boarding party went aboard. The vessel was the French-owned and French-flagged ship Lamulant, bound from Cap Français, Sainte-Domingue to Bordeaux, France with a cargo of dry goods. A strict examination of her crew produced a man who revealed that she was bound for the “Rebel Colonies” and showed where the real papers were hidden.  A petty officer and twelve men went aboard as a prize crew and the French skipper and crew were removed to the Winchelsea. The prize was kept with the Winchelsea. Although the French governor of Sainte-Domingue, Count d’Argout, launched a protest, the vessel had been condemned by 23 December 1777.

[NDAR, VIII, 998-999 and 999 notes; X, 790-792 and 792 note; XI, 448-453 and 454note27]