Name of Vessel:

Wild Catt

Master of Vessel:

Dussau

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

[15] November 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HM Schooner Tender Dolphin [Æolus]

Home Port:

Baltimore, Maryland

From What Port:

Baltimore, Maryland

To What Port:

Salt and dry goods

Cargo:

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

Port Royal, Jamaica

Into What Port:

Port Royal, Jamaica

Date Arrived:

22 November 1777

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: On 22 November 1777, HM Frigate Aeolus (Captain Christopher Atkins) was anchored in Port Royal Harbor, Jamaica. At 1300 a small schooner came in, captured by Aeolus’s tender, HM Schooner Tender Dolphin. She was from Maryland, and owned there, and had a cargo of salt and dry goods. About this same time Æolus is credited with the capture of the schooner Wild Catt (Dussau), owned in Baltimore, Maryland, with a cargo of dry goods. This is probably the same vessel as the unidentified schooner.

[NDAR, X, 574 and note; XI, 448-453]