May 1778 Tuesday 19th:
Cape Charles N82°W 17 Leags. at 11 AM the Schooner1 part’d Compy: saw a sail to the SSE, Tack’d made sl: & gave Chace
Do: [Cape Charles] West 14 Leags. Do: [Fresh Breezes] & haz’y in Chace to the Southwd: at 5 fir’d 1 Nine Poundr: to bring her too. found her to be a Sloop from Virginia for St. Eustatia wth Tobacco.2 put on Bd: her a Petty Officer & 3 Men & took out of her 5 Prisoners, at 7 Part’d Compy. wth the Prize. at 8 PM Tack’d
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/420, fols. 205–6.
1. Prize schooner Herbert. See Journal of H.M. frigate Greyhound, 18 May, above, for more on this prize and its capture.
2. Sloop Fame, Joshua Farnham, master, owned by William Godfrey, from the James River, Va., bound to Martinique, sent into New York City. Howe’s Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 483– 84; H.C.A. 32/328/14.
