Name of Vessel:

Dispatch

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Schooner

Date of Capture:

12 September] 1777

Place of Capture:

Turks Island, British West Indies

Captor:

HM Frigate Æolus

Home Port:

Virginia

From What Port:

Virginia

To What Port:

Cargo:

Corn, flour

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Midshipman

Prize crew:

7 [total]

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 Frigate Æolus (Captain Christopher Atkins) had captured the Rhode Island Privateer Sloop Swallow on 12 September 1777, near Turks Island. When Æolus hauled into the harbor at Turks Island she found a schooner there and sent a midshipman and six men aboard the “Prize Schooner lying in the Road” at 1900. This was probably the schooner Dispatch was bound from Virginia to the West Indies with a cargo of corn and flour. She was owned in Virginia. Dispatch was sent into Jamaica, British West Indies.

[NDAR, IX, 921 and notes; XI, 448-453]