Name of Vessel:

Adventure

Master of Vessel:

Commander James Morris

Rig of Vessel:

Brigantine

Date of Capture:

7 November 1780

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HMS America

Home Port:

Boston, Massachusetts

From What Port:

 

To What Port:

Cargo:

 

Tonnage:

Battery:

14x

Crew:

70 [nominal

Owners:

Henry Mitchell of Boston, Massachusetts

Prize master:

Prize crew:

Ordered Into:

New York, New York

Into What Port:

New York, New York

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Adventure was commissioned on 19 September 1780, under Commander James Morris of Boston, Massachusetts. Henry Mitchell of Boston was listed as her owner. She was listed as having fourteen guns and a crew of seventy men. There is a High Court of Admiralty record for a vessel Adventure commanded by James Morris in 1780, which may be this privateer. This also is probably the “brig Adventure” captured by HMS America on 7 November 1780. America was still receiving prize money for this capture in 1785.

[NRAR, 221. Also listed in Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 68; Emmons, 127, lists the skipper as “F. Morris.”; HCA 32/262/10/1-5; The London Gazette, Tuesday, February 22, to Saturday, February 26, 1785]

Posted 25 December 2008