Hinde Frigate Captures Smugglers.

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Document ID 9808648
Date 29-05-1795
Document Type Newspapers (Shipping News)
Archive Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Citation Hinde Frigate Captures Smugglers.; PRONI D/2015/5/7; CMSIED 9808648
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Transcribed from the Belfast Newsletter of
29 May 1795.

On Sunday the Hinde frigate brought into this harbour
as prize, a large smuggling cutter, mounting 16 guns,
4 and 6 pounders and forty men.  She was loaded with
500 casks of spirits, tea, tobacco, and nankeen from
Guernsey. She was chased for 15 hours before capture.
She was supposed to land her cargo on the coast of
Mourne.