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US Brig Reprisal (I)

Brig:
  • Built, date and location unknown
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Merchantman Molly purchased by the Marine Committee of the Continental Congress, 28 March 1776
  • Renamed Reprisal, CAPT. Lambert Wickes in command
  • Reprisal departed Philadelphia in later part of June bound for Martinique to bring back munitions for Gen. Washington's armies.
  • Reprisal was ordered to proceed to Nantes, France with Commissioner to France Benjamin Franklin aboard
  • Reprisal was the first Continental Navy ship to arrive in European waters
  • Reprisal along with Lexington and Dolphin participated in the action to capture British ships in and around Ireland, 18 to 26 June 1777, Wicks squadron took eighteen prizes
  • Reprisal was lost off the banks of Newfoundland around 1 October 1777, with all hands except the cook lost
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 100'
    Beam 30'
    Depth unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement 130
    Armament
    eighteen 6-pdrs
    Propulsion sail
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    Lexington 174k Panting by William Nowland Van Powell of USS Lexington and USS Reprisal. Courtesy the US Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. Tommy Trampp
    Reprisal
    098631202    		 329k The Continental Navy Brig Reprisal, Capt. Wickes, chased by a British Cruiser. Drawing by William Morgan, engraving by Alexander Anderson (1775–1870). Image from page 493 of the book The Life of Benjamin Franklin, (1848) by Oliver Luther Holley (1791-1861). Publisher G.G.Coolidge & Brother, New York. . Robert Hurst
    US Brig Reprisal (I)
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