July 1778 S
aturday 18
Tortola South 20 West Distance 427 Leagues
Light Airs and Cloudy, Fired to repeat the Signal to tack 6 pounders one & to Bring to an American Sloop 6 pounders- four Shotted
Tortola South 25 West Dist 440 Leags
At 1 PM we Spoke the Chase, a Sloop from Charles Town bound for Boston she was Taking by a Packet and Retaken by an American privateer and now taken by His Majestys Sloop Grasshopper,1 took her in Tow and made Sail for the Fleet
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/396, part 6.
1. In the journal entry of H.M. frigate Seaford for 18 July, Capt. John Colpoys reported that the unidentified prize sloop had been retaken by “Mars, a Rebel Privateer of 22 Guns." UkLPR, Adm. 51/880, part 3. Mars was a Massachusetts privateer ship, Gilbert Ash, commander.
