Name of Vessel:

Argo

Master of Vessel:

Cockran

Rig of Vessel:

Ship

Date of Capture:

[25 November] 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HM Sloop Porcupine

Home Port:

From What Port:

Môle Saint-Nicholas, Saint-Domingue

To What Port:

Cargo:

Sugar, coffee, molasses

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Jamaica

Into What Port:

Jamaica

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: The ship Argo (Cockran) was bound from Môle Saint-Nicholas, Saint-Domingue, French West Indies with a cargo of sugar, coffee, and molasses when she was captured by HM Sloop Porcupine (Commander Thomas Cadogan), about the end of November 1777. She was sent into Jamaica.

[NDAR, XI, 448-453]