Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome boat vehicle black and white On 4 March 1825, the schooner Grampus, commanded by Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, captured a pirate sloop off the southern coast of Puerto Rico. Also on this date, Lieutenant Junior Grade G. Pendergast, sailing in a prize sloop with 26 men, engaged a pirate sloop in a 40-minute action. The sloop was captured after much loss of life. Some of the pirates escaped ashore to Boca del Inferno, West Indies, where they were imprisoned by the Spanish. USS Grampus sketches of hulls and rigging by William A. K. Martin, c 1843 or later. Rigging is out-of-scale with the hull. NHHC Photograph Collection, NH 86236. On 4 March 1825, the schooner Grampus, commanded by Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, captured a pirate sloop off the southern coast of Puerto Rico. Also on this date, Lieutenant Junior Grade G. Pendergast, sailing in a prize sloop with 26 men, engaged a pirate sloop in a 40-minute action. The sloop was captured after much loss of life. Some of the pirates escaped ashore to Boca del Inferno, West Indies, where they were imprisoned by the Spanish. USS Grampus sketches of hulls and rigging by William A. K. Martin, c 1843 or later. Rigging is out-of-scale with the hull. NHHC Photograph Collection, NH 86236. |