Name of Vessel:

Adventure

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

13 November 1777

Place of Capture:

Off Cap Français, Sainte-Domingue

Captor:

HM Sloop Stork

Home Port:

From What Port:

Virginia

To What Port:

Cap Français, Sainte-Domingue

Cargo:

Flour and staves

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: HM Sloop Stork (Lieutenant Francis L’Montais) was laying off Cap Français, Sainte-Domingue on the morning of 13 November 1777. At 0700 she saw and chased a sail to the southeast. She soon captured the schooner Adventure, bound from Virginia to Cap Français with flour and staves. Adventure was sent in to Jamaica and condemned there.

[NDAR, X, 481 and note; XI, 448-453 and 455n46]