July 1778
Wedney: 29
So. end of Nantucket Shoal So. 73 W.
195 Leagues
at 10 AM hove too for the frigate1 Do. Made this signal for the Captain.
Do. So. 70 W. Distance 183 Leagues.
Mod. and Close Wr. at 8 PM Made the Frigate Signal to chace a Schooner in the NW. fired 3 Guns and Brought the Schooner too.2 She Provd. to be a Schooner from Boston Bound to Nantz. Sent all the Prisoners on Board the frigate.3
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1810, fol. 20.
1. H.M.S. Guadaloupe, Captain Hugh Robinson, commanding.
2. Although the wording here is unclear, H.M.S. Guadeloupe fired the shots and captured the schooner. Journal of H.M.S. Guadaloupe, entry for 29 July, UKLPR, Adm. 51/422, part 6.
3. The schooner had a crew of thirteen. Ibid. Because the prize schooner could not sail as fast as Invincible and Guadaloupe, Commo. John Evans ordered the schooner's cargo of tobacco to be removed and distributed to Invincible and Guadaloupe on 31 July; on 3 August, Evans ordered the prize to be burned, which was done. Captain's journal of H.M.S. Invincible, entry of 3 August; UkLPR, Adm. 51/478, part 2; Master's journal of Invincible, entries of 31 July and 3 August, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1810, fol. 20.
