July 1778 Sunday 5.
Monhagen Island1 N39°W.—18 Leagues
AM at 4 wore & made Sail to the Etwd.—at 9 saw a Sail to the SE gave Chace—split the Mizn.topsl:
Do. [Monhagen] Isld. N54°W 38 Leagues
First pt. fresh gales & cloudy middle & latter pts. moderate & clear Wr. PM still in chase at ½ past 4 brot. too the Chase—she prov'd the Brig Success2 from London bod. to [blank] laden with Bale Goods Salt &c—& had been taken by a Rebel Privateer—3
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/762, part 1, fols. 38–39.
1. That is, Monhegan I., Maine.
2. Brig Success, Francis Harriman, master, originally from London bound to Nova Scotia with salt, beef, pork, bread, flour and dry goods when captured on 22 June by Massachusetts privateer schooner Viper near the Magdalen I. in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The brig, 140 tons burthen and mounting six 2-pounders, was recaptured by H.M. frigate Rainbow's tender schooner True Blue, on 3 July in latitude 42° N and longitude 67° W, while bound for Salem, Massachusetts. It was sent to Halifax. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 483-84; CaNSHP, Vol. 496, Vice Admiralty Register, vol. 6 (1777–1782), pp. 150–51.
3. Privateer Viper, Capt. Benjamin Chapman, 33 tons, mounting fourteen swivel guns and manned by a crew of 30 seamen, was commissioned on 14 Apr. 1778 and was owned by Henry Rust and Israel Hutchinson of Salem. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 7, pp. 282, 284; Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 168, p. 259.
