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HMS Polecat (1782)

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Brig of the Royal Navy

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Polecat
NamesakePolecat
Acquired1782 by purchase
Captured1782
General characteristics
Tons burthen100 (bm)
PropulsionSails
Armament
  • Pennsylvania: 10 guns
  • Royal Navy: 14 guns

HMS Polecat was the Pennsylvania privateer Navarro, Captain William Keeler, which HMS Orpheus captured in March 1782. Between her commissioning on 18 July 1781 under Captain Woolman Sutton and her capture, Navarro captured two British vessels and recaptured one American vessel. One vessel that Navarro captured was Rebecca, M'Fadzean, master, which was sailing from Jamaica to London when Navarro captured Rebecca at 44°00′N 26°50′W / 44.000°N 26.833°W / 44.000; -26.833, north of the Azores.

The Royal Navy purchased Navarre at Boston for £1097 3s 5d and took her into service as the 14-gun brig-sloop HMS Polecat. She was initially under the command of Lieutenant Edmund Nagle, but Lieutenant the Honourable Patrick Napier succeeded him. Two French frigates chased her off the coast of Virginia on 31 July 1782; Émeraude effected the actual capture. Polecat was taken into York River, Virginia about 13 August. Her subsequent disposition is unknown.

Notes

  1. Rebecca, M'Fadz'n, master, Clark & Co., owner, of 280 tons (bm), had been launched in 1775 at Philadelphia.

Citations

  1. ^ Granville Hough – American War of Independence at Sea: Navarro.
  2. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 1350. 5 April 1782. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105233001. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  3. Lloyd's Register (1782), Seq.No.R25.
  4. Marshall (1823), p. 277.
  5. Winfield (2007), p. 319.
  6. Clowes et al. (1897-1903), Vol. 4, p. 112.
  7. Hepper (1994), p. 68.
  8. Demerliac (1996), p. 150, #1281.

References

  • Clowes, W. Laird, et al. (1897-1903) The royal navy: a history from the earliest times to the present. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; London : S. Low, Marston and Co.).
  • Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • Marshall, John (1823). "Nagle, Edmund" . Royal Naval Biography. Vol. 1, part 1. London: Longman and company. p. 277–278.
  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.
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