March [17]77 Monday 24th
Sombrero S38E Distce 127 Leagues At 9 Saw a Sail to the Eastward. hauled our wind & gave Chace, the Pearl in Company. At ½ past the Pearl fired several shot at the Chace and brought her too. Proved a Schooner from Charlestown & bound too St. Thomas's Laden, Rice & Indigo.2 The Pearl & two Prizes in Compy.
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/157.
2. Speedwell, John Brynen, master, Howe's Prize List, May 22, 1777, London Gazette, July 8 to July 12, 1777. Prize list erroneously listed her as captured March 19.
