Joseph Veale

Posted by Jon Miller on Monday 25th of May 2026 09:10

Possibly the following Captain Veale -

London, 13 May: We have received the following melancholy account from several of the poor British captives lately redeemed from slavery in Barbary, some of whom came home in the Blandford man of war 22d of last March, viz. That they sailed, October 1745, out of the River Thames, in the Inspector Privateer, Capt Veale, of twenty-two carriage guns, besides swivels; and on the 4th of January 1745-6 were wrecked in Tangier Bay, on the coast of Barbary, where they lost ninety-six of the crew, and eighty-six getting on shore alive were immediately seized and stript by the Moors; seventy-nine of them being carried to prison… [Kentish Post, 15 May 1751]

Posted by Albert Parker on Wednesday 23rd of September 2020 05:42

_Guernsey's Prize_ was an unregistered (and thus not in BWAS) "barcolongo," found in David Lyon, _The Sailing navy List_, 201. Nothing else known and I surprised that she was entitled to a commander as a commanding officer, but perhaps Medley did some fiddling to get a promotion for Veale.