Capture of Vigilant

Capture of Vigilant
	Part of the King George's War
	; Edward Tyng
Date	18–20 May 1745
Location	off Fortress Louisbourg
Result	British victory
Belligerents
Great Britain	France
Commanders and leaders
Peter Warren; Edward Tyng	Marquis de la Maisonfort[1]
Strength
5 ships of the line	1 ship of the line; 500 men
Casualties and losses
6 wounded (including Tyng)	1 ship of the line captured; 35 killed & 26 wounded; 100 prisoners

The Capture of Vigilant involved Commodore Warren in HMS Superb (60 guns), Captain Durell in HMS Eltham (40 guns), Captain Calmady in HMS Launceston, Captain Douglas in HMS Mermaid and Captain John Rous of HMS Shirley Galley who fought the French ship Vigilant (64 guns) off Louisbourg. Captain Douglas in Mermaid (40 guns) engaged the French ship. John Rous in Shirley Galley was the first to fire, giving the ship several broadsides into the stern. Captain Durell was next to give a broadside. The commodore got alongside the ship - they fired briskly, tearing the rigging and sails to pieces. Fog settled in and Vigilant got away. In the morning, Vigilant was visible and clearly wrecked. The British took 100 French sailors prisoner to Boston.[2]

Vigilant in 1745, a captured French third rate, as taken off prior to fitting as a 58-gun two-decker fourth rate

References

"Biography – LA MAISONFORT DU BOISDECOURT, ALEXANDRE DE, Marquis de LA MAISONFORT – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
Chapin, Howard M. (January 29, 1928). "Privateering in King George's war, 1739-1748 /". Providence. hdl:2027/txu.059173017850230. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Sources

Canadian Biography - Edward Tyng
Memoirs of Edward Tyng, Esquire ... and of Hon. William Tyng ... By Edward Tyng, William Tyng, Timothy Alden
Capture of the Vigilant, A particular history of the five years French and Indian war in New England ... By Samuel Gardner Drake p. 209
McLennan, J.S. (1918). Louisbourg, from Its Foundation to Its Fall, 1713-1758. London: Macmillan. pp. 156, 177.
French third rate ship of the line 'Le Vigilant' (1744)
Seeds of Discontent: The Deep Roots of the American Revolution, 1650-1750 By J. Revell Car, p. 244
Blue Pete
Douglass, William (1755). A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North-America ... Vol. I. Boston, New England: R. Baldwin. p. 341.

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[1] "Biography – LA MAISONFORT DU BOISDECOURT, ALEXANDRE DE, Marquis de LA MAISONFORT – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.

[2] Chapin, Howard M. (January 29, 1928). "Privateering in King George's war, 1739-1748 /". Providence. hdl:2027/txu.059173017850230. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)