HMS Polecat (1782)

HMS Polecat was the Pennsylvania privateer Navarro, Captain William Keeler, which HMS Orpheus captured in March 1782.[1] Between her commissioning on 18 July 1781 under Captain Woolman Sutton and her capture, Navarro captured two British vessels and recaptured one American vessel.[1] One vessel that Navarro captured was Rebecca, M'Fadzean, master, which was sailing from Jamaica to London when Navarro captured Rebecca at 44°00′N 26°50′W, north of the Azores.[2][lower-alpha 1]

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Polecat
NamesakePolecat
Acquired1782 by purchase
Captured1782
General characteristics
Tons burthen100[1] (bm)
PropulsionSails
Armament
  • Pennsylvania: 10 guns
  • Royal Navy: 14 guns

The Royal Navy purchased Navarre at Boston for £1097 3s 5d and took her into service as the 14-gun brig-sloop HMS Polecat. She was initially under the command of Lieutenant Edmund Nagle,[4] but Lieutenant the Honourable Patrick Napier succeeded him.[5][6] Two French frigates chased her off the coast of Virginia on 31 July 1782; Émeraude effected the actual capture.[7] Polecat was taken into York River, Virginia about 13 August.[1] Her subsequent disposition is unknown.[8]

Notes
  1. Rebecca, M'Fadz'n, master, Clark & Co., owner, of 280 tons (bm), had been launched in 1775 at Philadelphia.[3]

Citations
  1. Granville Hough – American War of Independence at Sea: Navarro.
  2. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 1350. 5 April 1782. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105233001. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  3. Lloyd's Register (1782), Seq.No.R25.
  4. Marshall (1823), p. 277.
  5. Winfield (2007), p. 319.
  6. Clowes et al. (1897-1903), Vol. 4, p. 112.
  7. Hepper (1994), p. 68.
  8. Demerliac (1996), p. 150, #1281.

References
  • Clowes, W. Laird, et al. (1897-1903) The royal navy: a history from the earliest times to the present. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; London : S. Low, Marston and Co.).
  • Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
  • Marshall, John (1823). "Nagle, Edmund" . Royal Naval Biography. Vol. 1, part 1. London: Longman and company. p. 277–278.
  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.
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