May 1777 [Wednesday] 14th
Start No 72°53' Distance 573 Leagues at 4 Tack'd at½ past Joind Company with the Commodore made our Signal to Speak us spoke Him 2 order'd us to Chace 2 Sail in the NE made Sail out 1st Reef Top Sails set Studding Sails at 10 Shortend Sail spoke the Nicholas a Dutch Ship from Surinam made Sail after the other it was a Brigg from Charles Town So Carolina bound to Bourdeaux laden with Rice call'd the Friendship Jno Ducey Master took out [illegible] Men & sent a Midshipman & 5 Men in Lieu with six Swords six Pistols & two Catouch Boxes. Modte and Cloudy Wr at 6 made Sail parted Company with the Prize 3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/253.
2. Captain Richard Onslow, of H.M.S. St. Albans, who had sailed from England April 15 in charge of a convoy for New York.
3. Friendship was sent into Cork, arriving on June 4, 1777. A dispatch from there reported her "laden with Rice, Indigo, and Tobacco, and is valued at 10,000 I. Sterling," Public Advertiser, London, June 23, 1777.
