Report from the British Admiralty Office, July 8, 1778

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Admiralty Office, July 8.

Captain Bryne, of this Majesty’s ship the Andromeda, in his letter to Mr. Stephens, gives an account, that on his voyage from the River Delawar, on the 31st of May he fell in with and took the Angelica privateer from Boston, mounting 16 guns, six pounders, and carrying 98 men, and that after taking out the hands he set the ship on fire.¹

A letter has been received at the Admiralty Office, from Admiral Young, giving an account of an additional number of captures made by him since his last dispatches; many of the ships and cargoes of great value.²

Sir George Collier, in the Rainbow, by himself, and in company with other vessels, has taken no less than forty-three prizes, and several of them large ships, and of value, during his station in America.

So plenty are Seaman in America, that all the ships on that station are full manned. Lord Howe’s ship the Eagle has 150 more than her complement.³

Lloyd’s Evening Post, 8–10 July 1778.

1. The letter from Capt. Henry Bryne of H.M. frigate Andromeda to Philip Stephens, Secretary of the Admiralty, has not been found. See Heathcote Muirson to Benjamin Franklin, 21 July 1778, below, on the brig’s capture.

2. See A List of Vessels taken by the Squadron Under Command of Vice Admiral [James] Young at Barbadoes & Leeward Islands 14 March 1778, NDAR 11: 644–45.

3. As seen in the letter from Vice Admiral Viscount Howe to Philip Stephens, 6 July, above, this report was greatly exaggerated.

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1778 July 8

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Volume 13

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European Theater, June 1 to August 15, 1778

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

Report from the British Admiralty Office, July 8, 1778

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