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Diana

28757
Nominal GunsUnknownref:1257
NationalityGreat Britain
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired8.1.1761ref:1257
Home PortNewport - Rhode Island - Rhode Island ref:1257
ShipyardUnknownref:1257
CategoryPrivateerref:1257
Ship TypeSloopref:1257
Last known1762ref:1257

Dimensions


DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:1290
Displacement73Ton 

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1762
Thomas HazardBritish
Ship Owner
Service 1760-1762
,
Gideon SissonBritish
Ship Owner
Service 1761-1762
,
CoddingtonBritish
Ship Owner
Service 1762
ref:1291

2 Ship Commanders


DatesRankNameSource
8.1.1761 - Captain
Job EastonBritish
Privateer
Service 1757-1762
ref:1257
24.4.1762 - Captain
Job EastonBritish
Privateer
Service 1757-1762
ref:1290


Notes on Ship


Letter of Marqueref:1290

1761, Jan. 8. Diana. Sloop. Tons 73.

Commander, Job Easton.

Bond. £1500.

Bonders, Job Easton, gentleman, Newport, principal; Henry Wall, North Kingstown; Thomas Hassard and John Roffe, Newport; Seth Crane, Berkeley, Mass., all merchants, sureties.

Bond signed only by Hassard and Roffe.

Witnesses, Edward Thurston, Junr., Henry Ward, Esther Ward.

N. P. VII, 152. Marine Bond.

 

1762, April 24. Diana. Sloop. Tons 73.

Commander, Job Easton.

Bond. £1500 and additional bond £10,000 not to carry soldiers.

Bonders, Job Easton, gentleman, principal; Thomas Hassard and Gideon Sissons, merchants and equippers, sureties; all of Newport.

Witnesses, John Sims, Henry Ward.

N. P. VII, 252. Marine Bonds.



 
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