April [1778]
Sunday 13:
[At Sea, off St. Eustatius]1
[AM] Chaced a Brig to the Sowd: Fresh breezes and squally. [PM] fired a shot to bring too the chace. She brought too and return'd a broadside fired a broadside into her. She struck & proved a brig from Carolina loaded with rice & indigo.2 Exchanged her people & made sail in chace of a schooner. In a squall carried away the Main and fore topmasts. Employed all night clearing the deck.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/906, part 1.
1. The location of H.M. sloop Snake is taken from the noon reading for 14 Apr.
2. Brig Friendship, Archibald Young, master, 100 tons, carrying 6 guns and a crew of 12, from South Carolina. Young's Prize List, 27 Apr., below.