May 1778 Thursday 21st.
Cape Bonavisto—1 SSEbE Diste. 6 or 7 Leags- Mode. breezes & Cloudy The prizes in Company. saw a Schooner in Shore. Calm with her head to the Esward, Do. hoisted two boats out and Sent them manned & armed after the Schooner. Light airs & Cloudy Wr.
Saddle Hill SE Diste. 9 or 10 Leags Little Wind & Variable at 4 [PM] our boats return’d with the Wm. Schooner2 one of our Convoy taken by a Rebel privateer. Light airs Took the Schooner in Toe the four prizes in Company.3
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/137, part 3.
1. That is, Bahía de Buena Vista, Cuba.
2. Schooner William, Gilbert Kellam, master, G.W. White of Green I., Jamaica, owner, 75 tons burthen with a crew of seven, captured on a voyage from Jamaica to St. Augustine with a cargo of rum, sugar, slaves, and dry goods. Parker’s Prize List, 24 Feb. 1779, UkLPR, Adm. 1/241, part 2. According to Parker’s Prize List, H.M.S. Bristol on the same day was credited with the capture of the sloop Aurora of 40 tons burthen. Ibid.
3. Presumably, schooner William, sloop Aurora, ship Isabella, and ship Swift.
