Ryan Mewett
@remewett.bsky.social
History professor | 18c. Britain & Atlantic world: merchants, navy, and the state | submariner | USN officer - personal views, not those of DoD.
But, all that said, could only say for sure it didn’t happen with primary sources that are an ocean away.
August 7, 2024 at 8:59 PM
But, all that said, could only say for sure it didn’t happen with primary sources that are an ocean away.
The British warship Medway evidently captured a French privateer named Pontchartrain off Ireland in 1697. And a different Pontchartrain captured a Bristol merchantman loaded with tobacco in August 1707 and had it condemned in Brittany, so unlikely that was in the West Indies.
August 7, 2024 at 8:58 PM
The British warship Medway evidently captured a French privateer named Pontchartrain off Ireland in 1697. And a different Pontchartrain captured a Bristol merchantman loaded with tobacco in August 1707 and had it condemned in Brittany, so unlikely that was in the West Indies.
I can’t absolutely rule it out, but no sign of it in pertinent secondary sources. I can’t make sense of it with what I can find about the employment of the named ships, either; looks like Guernsey might’ve been in the West Indies in 1707, and Mermaid possibly from 1704 but was broken up in 1706.
August 7, 2024 at 8:52 PM
I can’t absolutely rule it out, but no sign of it in pertinent secondary sources. I can’t make sense of it with what I can find about the employment of the named ships, either; looks like Guernsey might’ve been in the West Indies in 1707, and Mermaid possibly from 1704 but was broken up in 1706.