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Sarah Goulburn

12324
Nominal Guns26HLP
NationalityGreat Britain
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired1777HLP
Home PortLiverpool - Lancashire HLP
ShipyardUnknownHLP
CategoryPrivateerHLP
Ship TypeUnknownHLP
Foundered1782HLP

1 Ship Commander


DatesRankNameSource
1777 - 1778Captain
Nehemiah HollandBritish
Naval Sailor
Ship Owner
Privateer
Service 1757-1778
HLP

Service History


DateEventSource
19.7.1777Took the Sally from Charles Town, South Carolina, bound to NantzHLP
2.1778Cruising on the coasts of Carolina and VirginiaHLP
9.1779Sent the Minerva into Liverpool, taken in the Bay of BiscayHLP
9.1779

HCA 32/402/4 Captured ship: Minerva, master Antonio Xavier Caneoto.

History: Portuguese merchant ship, sailing from St Domingue to Fayal in the Azores and thence to Amsterdam, laden with tobacco. Taken by privateer Sarah Goulburn (Matthew Lewtas commanding) and brought into Liverpool.

HCA26
24.9.1779Arrived in Liverpool with the prize Amiable Magdalaine, from Guadaloupe for NantzHLP
1780Took a shallop, loaded with coffeeHLP
1781Took a French and Dutch ship and carried another Dutchman into JamaicaHLP


Notes on Ship


Letter from Captain Nehemiah Holland, dated 19th July, 1777HLP

GENTLEMEN, I congratulate you upon a prize I have taken this day, named the Sally, Thomas Tracy, master, from Charles Town, South Carolina, bound to Nantz, loaded with 470 whole, and 120 half barrels rice, and betwixt twenty and thirty casks of indigo. I have put in Mr. Smith as prize master, who will acquaint you of every particular since our sailing. Am in a hurry to dispatch the prize, as I am informed there were 30 sail more to sail from Charles Town the day after them, and am anxious to be amongst them. You'll please remember me to my friends, as I have not time to write them. I remain,
Gentlemen, Your much obliged humble Servant, N. HOLLAND.
"P.S. Mr. Smith has behaved very well with me, and executed his office as I could wish. Would be much oblished to you to assist him in another birth"



 
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