April 78
Saturday 4th
At the Pitch Kettle Moorings in English Harbour Antigua Fresh Breezes and clear Wr: Came in the Fly from a Cruize.1 Our Ships Crew receiv'd Prize money for ye Success Schooner. Peggy Katty and Sampson Brigs and Maria Sloop.2 Our Tender ye Tartar3 sent into St. Johns An American Privateer laden with Rice and Indigo.4
D, UkLPR, Adm, 51/711, part 4.
1. H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Fly, Comdr. Edward Garner, commander.
2. For more on the capture of Success, Peggy & Katey, Sampson, and Maria, see List of Prizes Condemned in the Vice Admiralty Court of Antigua, 14 Jan. 1778. NDAR 11: 124–27.
3. Sloop tender Tartar.
4. This was probably sloop William, Joseph Watson, master, which was captured off St. Barthélemy, French West Indies, on 31 Mar. See, Young's Prize List, 27 Apr., below; there the capture is credited to H.M.S. Portland.
