May 1778 Sunday 10th.
Do. [Nantucket Shoals] N9W Dist 13 Lgs.
AM Chaced fired at & brt. too a Schooner1 with Tobacco from Bermudas for New York that had been taken by an American Privateer, Apollo in Coy. sent a Midn. & 2 Men in the Schooner to Rhode Island—at 11 gave Chace to a Sail in the SW Quarr.
Do. [Nantucket Shoals] N69W Dist 17 Leags.
Modt. & fair Wr. PM, brt: too the Chace a Sloop from Jamaica for Halifax, lost sight of the Apollo2
D, UkGrNMM, ADM L/M/27. Journal kept by Lt. George Countess, second lieutenant of H.M. frigate Maidstone.
1. Schooner Nancy, master unknown, a recapture, bound from Bermuda to Newberry Prt. [Newburyport] with tobacco and turpentine, taken in Lat. 40°. 26 [North] and Long. 68°.16 [West], sent to Rhode Island. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 485–86.
2. H.M. frigate Apollo, Capt. Philemon Pownoll, commander.
