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SQUIRREL (24) 6th rate Built in 1707, Woolwich.
Sold in 1749.

  • 1713 Capt. James or Joshua) CAMPBELL.
  • 1715 Capt. Thomas SMART, appointed on 26th. July, one of the squadron under Sir George BYNG ordered for the North Sea to prevent supplies reaching the Old Pretender in Scotland.
  • 1728 Capt. Henry OSBORNE, 4 January 1728/29.
  • 1739?-1741 Capt. Peter WARREN, North Sea, American station.
  • Extract from a letter from on board SQUIRREL at Charlestown dated about October 1738.
  • I let you know that we have had the fortune about three weeks ago of taking off St. Augustine, a Spanish vessel, the Crew consisting of 9 men; her cargo was Flour, Butter, & c. which they had bought off Capt. Kip of New York, who is there at present, but dare not venture out, for fear of being made a prize. Our prize had also on board 700 Ounces of silver: Our Captain has used the Spanish crew with the utmost Humanity. We arriv'd about a week ago with the Prize; and shall sail again on another cruise in about 10 Days with Two or Three Men of War. We have News, that that General Oglethorpe is going with a Great Army both of Soldiers and Indians, to take St. Augustine. This Day our Captain had a Letter from him, which was sent with all possible haste, which I suppose is for us to dispatch for that place. The Yellow Fever is abated, but has been very mortal.
  • 1742 Capt. Francis GEARY, promoted to post captain on 30th. June and employed as a cruiser. He captured a small Spanish privateer which he renamed the MISTAKE, and manned as an armed tender and in company with her, on the 29th. January, he captured and burnt a Spanish privateer called the St Elmo, on the shore of a village in Madeira.
  • Whitehall, March 5th. 1743
  • His Majesty's Ship the Squirrel, Capt. Geary, arrived in the Downs the 3rd. Instant, with a Prize discover'd by him at Sea the 10th. February last, in the Latitude of 36.59 N. Madeira bearing S. 24.15 E. 92 Leagues Distance, and taken the Day following. She is a French Ship, call'd the Pierre Joseph, hired by the Spaniards at Cadiz, and bound from Vera Cruz and the Havana to that Port, as was confess'd by some of her Officers, for her papers were all thrown overboard. Her Supercargo at first conceal'd himself, but afterwards appear'd and was found to be a Spaniard. She had also several Spanish Passengers on board in Disguise. The Master was French but he acknowledged that he had no Interest whatsoever in the Cargo, which belong'd entirely to the Spaniards. Her Cargo consisted of 65 Chests of Silver, 5 Bales of Chochinea, 57 of Indigo and one Case of Vanilla, 60 of Sugar, and 3500 Hides. She pretended to have been bound to Mississippi, but the Master own'd that she had not been there, nor at any other Port in America beside La Vera Cruz and the Havana, having taken in her Lading of Quicksilver, Wine and Brandy at Cadiz for the former Place, and touch'd at the latter her Return to take in Sugar and Hides, and from thence sail'd in Company with five French Ships more, under Convoy, under convoy of a Spanish Galleon, all bound to Cadiz, and parted from them 8 days before she was taken.
  • From the London Gazette.
  • On the morning of Thursday 10th. the SQUIRREL and her prize came by Gravesend from the Downs.
  • Seventy three chests of silver from on board the Pierre Joseph where brought to the Bank on Monday 11th. April in three wagons under a strong guard of Sailors - with Musick playing and Colours display'd. Since clearing the prize several caskets of jewels concealed in the ballast were found.
  • Prior to sailing on an earlier cruise, Capt GEARY had entered into an agreement with a fellow captain, that they would share any prizes they might take. Although the agreement had expired by the time of the capture of the Pierre Joseph, Capt. GEARY divided equally the whole of his part, saying that he was sure the other captain would have acted in the same way.
  • Early in 1744 Capt. GEARY commanded the DOLPHIN before moving to the CHESTER on 17th. February.
  • 1745 Archibald STUART, 20th. February. In the following September he was one of the members of a court martial held on Capt. Burrish and others. 1757 Capt. Hyde PARKER. When he took a ship called the America, Lewis Ferrett, sailing from San Domingo, as a prize, the capture was appealed; but the Lords of Appeal ruled that since the outward cargo had been on the French account to a French settlement, and that on the return journey the cargo found on board was the property of French subjects and that the bills of lading had been destroyed; the ship and cargo were therefore condemned as a prize.


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