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Yankee Hero Massachusetts Brig [Thomas Tracy] Yankee Hero (1) Commander Thomas Thomas Sloop-of-War []Brig/Sloop 13 January 1776-20 February 1776 Massachusetts Privateer Brig (2) Commander James Tracy 20 February 1776-6 June 1776 Commissioned/First Date: 13 January 1776 Out of Service/Cause: 6 June 1776/captured by HM Frigate Milford Owners: Jackson, Tracy & Tracy of Newburyport, Massachusetts Tonnage: 120 Battery: Date Reported: 20 February 1776 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 14/ Total: 14 cannon/ Broadside: 7 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 22 February 1776 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 14/ Total: 14 cannon/ Broadside: 7 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 6 June 1776 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 17/ Total: 17 cannon/ Broadside: 8 cannon/ Swivels: twelve Date Reported: 25 June 1776 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 12/ Total: 12 cannon/ Broadside: 6 cannon/ Comment on this or any page at our ©awiatsea.com-posted July 2020 --1-- Swivels: six Date Reported: 25 June 1776 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 18/ Total: 18 cannon/ Broadside: 9 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 29 June 1776 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 18/ Total: 18 cannon/ Broadside: 9 cannon/ Swivels: ten Crew: (1) 20 February 1776: 41 []total (2) 6 June 1776: 52 []total Description: Fine, large brig Officers: (1) First Lieutenant []William Main []Mains , -6 June 1776; (2) Second Lieutenant Robert Tracy, -6 June 1776; (3) Prize Master Davis, -6 June 1776 Cruises: (1) Newburyport, Massachusetts to sea and return, [][]February 1776- March 1776 (2) Newburyport, Massachusetts to sea, 6 June 1776 Prizes: (1) British Transport Snow James (William Littledale), []February 1776 (2) British Transport Brigantine Sally (Alexander Wilson), off Newburyport, Massachusetts, 16 February 1776 (3) British Transport Brigantine Nelly (John Robinson), in Massachusetts Bay, 26 February 1776 Actions: (1) Action off Cape Ann, 6 June 1776 Comments: Massachusetts Privateer Brig Yankee Hero was commissioned on 13 January 1776 under Commander Comment on this or any page at our ©awiatsea.com-posted July 2020 --2-- Thomas Thomas 1 of Newburyport, Massachusetts. 2 Her battery and crew were not stated in her bond, but she was listed as 120 tons (another source indicates 150 tons). 3 Jonathan Jackson, Nathaniel Tracy, and Jo hn Tracy, all of Newburyport, and Thomas, signed her £1000 Massachusetts bond. Although the owners were not stated, they were clearly the house of Tracy and Tracy. 4 Yankee Hero made at least one cruise under command of Thomas, with some success. The 180 ton 5 []British Transport Snow James (William Littledale), from Whitehaven to Boston 6 with a cargo of provisions was captured and sent into Newburyport. She must have been captured in early February 1776, for she was libeled on 26 February 7 with her trial set for 21 March 1776. 8 On 16 February the Yankee Hero sent into Newburyport a “Bark” of about 300 tons, with a cargo of coal, pork and flour. This was the [ British Transport] Brigantine Sally (Alexander Wilson), bound for Boston. 9 On 26 February 1776, a provision vessel bound to Boston after a short passage from England was captured. This was [ British Transport] Brigantine Nelly (John Robinson). 10 Nelly , 200 tons, was out of Whitehaven with a cargo of cheese, coal and provisions. She was sent into Newburyport. 11 A second commission was obtained on 20 February 1776 for the Yankee Hero , this time with James Tracy as commander. The brig was listed as 120 tons, with a battery of fourteen guns and a crew of forty men. Her £1000 Massachusetts bond was executed by James Tracy, Jonathan Jackson, 1 NDAR, “Public Advertiser , Wednesday, March 5, 1777,” 8: 637-639 2 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution , 329 3 NDAR, "Public Advertiser , Wednesday, March 5, 1777," 8: 637-639 4 NDAR, “Colony Bond for the Massachusetts Armed Brig Yankee Hero ,” 3: 764 5 NDAR, “Advertisement of Libels filed in the Admiralty Court of Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex Counties, Massachusetts,” 4: 81-82 and 82 note. Identification of captor of the James is incorrect in the note. see also NDAR, “Providence Gazette , Saturday, April 20, 1776,” 4: 1174-1176 6 NDAR, “Captain William Littledale to the Massachusetts Council,” 4: 389 7 NDAR, “Advertisement of Libels filed in the Admiralty Court of Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex Counties, Massachusetts,” 4: 81-82 and 82 note 8 The New England Chronicle , Wednesday, March 6, to Thursday, March 14, 1776 9 NDAR, “New England Chronicle , Thursday, February 8 to Thursday, February 22, 1776,” 4: 34-35 and 35 note 10 NDAR, “Providence Gazette , Saturday, March 2, 1776,” 4: 136 and note 11 NDAR, “Boston Gazette , Monday, March 4, 1776,” 4: 157 and note Comment on this or any page at our ©awiatsea.com-posted July 2020 --3-- Nathaniel and John Tracy (all of Newburyport) and John Lee of Marblehead. 12 This commission was probably obtained before Thomas had returned to port from his cruise in the Yankee Hero . James Tracy was a relative of Jonathan Jackson' s wife, and had served in the British navy in some capacity. He was not born in America, but was a “warm Friend for it' s Liberties.”13 By early June 1776 the Yankee Hero was completely fitted out for a six-month cruise 14 in the West Indies, Tracy' s intended cruising ground. 15 However, he had been unable to recruit a full crew in Newburyport. 16 He wanted a hundred men, but had only a quarter that number aboard. 17 Tracy decided to go round to Boston and complete the crew there. 18 He sailed out of Newburyport on 6 June under the green and white Pine Tree Flag 19 with only twenty-six men, officers included, 12 NDAR, “Colony Bond for the Massachusetts Brig Yankee Hero ,” 4: 19; see also Emmons, 169, but Emmons incorrectly identifies Yankee Hero ’s captor. 13 NDAR, “Jonathan Jackson to Elbridge Gerry,” 7: 969-970 14 NDAR, “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128; “Massachusetts Spy , September 11, 1776,” 6: 778-780 15 NDAR, “Cotton Tufts to John Adams,” 5: 580-582 16 NDAR, “Cotton Tufts to John Adams,” 5: 580-582; “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128; “ Massachusetts Spy , September 11, 1776,” 6: 778-780 17 NDAR, “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128; “Massachusetts Spy , September 11, 1776,” 6: 778-780 18 NDAR, “Cotton Tufts to John Adams,” 5: 580-582; “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128 19 NDAR, “London Chronicle , Tuesday, August 13 to Thursday, August 15, 1776,” 5: 724-725 Comment on this or any page at our ©awiatsea.com-posted July 2020 --4-- The area around Thacher’s Island. The battle took place to the south and east of Thacher’s. aboard. 20 Among the officers were First Lieutenant [ William ] Mains 21 (or Main), 22 Second Lieutenant Robert Tracy 23 and Prize Master Davis. 24 At dawn on 6 June, HM Frigate Milford was patrolling off Cape Ann. She was a large frigate, armed with twenty-eight 9-pounders, with a crew of 280 men. Her commanding officer, Captain John Burr, was a seasoned and experienced veteran. Milford set easy sail and stood west, her deck 20 NDAR, “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128; “Massachusetts Spy , September 11, 1776,” 6: 778-780 21 NDAR, “Continental Journal , Thursday, June 13, 1776,” 5: 507-508. His first name is not given in this source, but William Main later commanded the Bilboa Packet in November 1776, and was a native of Newburyport. Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution , 193 22 NDAR, “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128; “Massachusetts Spy , September 11, 1776,” 6: 778-780 23 NDAR, “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128; “Massachusetts Spy , September 11, 1776,” 6: 778-780 24 NDAR, “Essex Journal and New Hampshire Packet , Friday, August 9, 1776,” 6: 126-128; “Massachusetts Spy , September 11, 1776,” 6: 778-780 Comment on this or any page at our ©awiatsea.com-posted July 2020 --5-- officer noting that she was twelve miles ESE of Cape Ann. 25 By afternoon the Yankee Hero was going around Cape Ann and Tracy saw the sails of a large vessel in the distance. Without a full crew aboard he was reluctant to chase. Soon after the brig overtook two boats, full of armed men, which had been pursuing the vessel. These men informed Tracy that several transports had been in close to the Cape earlier in the day, and offered to join him if he would pursue the stranger. Tracy agreed, and fourteen of the men boarded the Yankee Hero , sending their boats ashore. 26 The brig now set off for the stranger, which was fifteen miles away to the ESE, the wind blowing from the Yankee Hero Spoon: “A silver teaspoon with the figure of the privateer Yankee Hero in bas relief on the convex surface of the bowl of the spoon was manufactured and sold by an enterprising silversmith soon after the close of the Revolutionary war . .” They are somewhat worn but have the figure of a vessel Detail of a postage stamp issued by Paraguay in 1976, showing the fight between Yankee Hero and Milford. The with the name Yankey Hero original painting is by Nowland Van Powell. Note that Yankee Hero is incorrectly shown as flying the “Grand Union” on them . .” From Currier, flag. There is specific testimony that she was flying the “Pine Tree” flag. Accurately shown is the deadly full John James, History of broadside being fired by Milford.
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