British Privateer 'Patsey' (1781)

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Patsey
Nominal Guns	16	HLP
Nationality	Great Britain
Operator	Private Owners
Acquired	1781	HLP
Home Port	Liverpool - Lancashire	HLP
Shipyard	Unknown	HLP
Category	Privateer	HLP
Ship Type	Unknown	HLP
Captured	31.5.1781	HLP

1 Ship Commander

DatesRankNameSource
1781 - 31.5.1781Captain†HLP

Service History

DateEventSource
31.5.1781Taken by , off the Western Islands after an engagement of one hour and-a-half .HLP

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

HLPGomer Williams, Digital Book

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Posted by Thierry Spahi on Monday 7th of November 2022 13:00

According to the Friponne's logbook, the Patsey was a brand new three-masted Liverpool Privateer, copper-sheathed, mounting 24 x 6-pdr, 150 crew.
She suffered 20 men killed (Captain Dooling, his sailing master and 18 crew) and 20 to 22 injured men.
She was sent to Cadiz.

Posted by Brian on Tuesday 29th of December 2015 22:05

Edinburgh Advertiser Mar. 24, 1780 - Saturday last, arrived at Liverpool the Patsey, Capt. Doling, from Jamaica, who sailed from thence with the fleet for Europe on the 17th of January, and parted with it about eighteen days before off the banks of Newfoundland in a gale of wind.

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