Name of Vessel:

Lyon

Master of Vessel:

George Hales

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

15 May 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts

Captor:

HM Frigate Ambuscade

Home Port:

From What Port:

Cape Ann, Massachusetts

To What Port:

Virginia

Cargo:

Ballast

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Into What Port:

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

[burned]

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The schooner Lyon (George Hales) was bound from Cape Ann, Massachusetts to Virginia in ballast. On 15 May 1777 she was off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts, where she was captured by HM Frigate Ambuscade. Lyon was burned.

[“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]