Noah Stoddard - American privateer

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Noah Stoddard (1755–1850) (American privateer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Stoddard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Lunenburg_(1782)
https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_fleet&id=53

American privateer during the American Revolution

Stoddard led four other privateer vessels,
privateers George Waith Babcock, Gregory Powers, Herbert Woodberry, John Tibbets
and attacked the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on July 1, 1782,
the most spectacular privateer raid of the war

Stoddard, commanding the brig Scammel
(120 tons, 16 guns, approx 75 men)
landed a party of men on the shore of the small town and took a
large quantity of food and rum.
After sacking the town and taking some merchant ships prize they sailed away.


The sack of Lunenburg in 1782 was a spectacular example of the importance of America’s pirate navy to the Revolutionary War.
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/flashback-photo-1782-sack-lunenberg-americas-pirate-navy/


This Day In History, July 1st, 2020 – “Raid On Lunenburg”
https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/this-day-in-history-july-1st-2020-raid-on-lunenburg/


Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782) Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2COCrDQkRFE


British New York Vice-Admiralty Court.
Captured ship: Scammel (commander Noah Stoddard)....
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13507726

taken on 8 December 1782