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Sunday 24 May 2015

British schooner of war Spitfire captured French privateer St. Jean according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche courant dated 16 March 1793

An item reported that the British sloop of war Spitfire captured and sent towards Portsmouth the French privateer St. Jean and forced another three to run aground off Havre de Grace setting one in fire.(1)

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1. The 4-gun schooner purchased in 1793 and capsized in February 1894 off San Domingo?