Capture of Vigilant

{{Infobox military conflict

|conflict=Capture of Vigilant

|partof=the King George's War

|image=Commodore Edward Tyng (1683-1755).png

|image_size=300px

|caption= Edward Tyng

|date= 18–20 May 1745

|place= off Fortress Louisbourg

|casus=

|territory=

|result=British victory

|combatant1= {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}

|combatant2= {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}}

|commander1={{flagicon|Kingdom of Great Britain}} Peter Warren
{{flagicon image|Red Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg}} Edward Tyng

|commander2= {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} Marquis de la Maisonfort{{Cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/la_maisonfort_du_boisdecourt_alexandre_de_3E.html|title=Biography – LA MAISONFORT DU BOISDECOURT, ALEXANDRE DE, Marquis de LA MAISONFORT – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography|website=www.biographi.ca}}

|strength1=5 ships of the line

|strength2=1 ship of the line; 500 men

|casualties1=6 wounded (including Tyng)

|casualties2=1 ship of the line captured
35 killed & 26 wounded
100 prisoners

|notes=

|campaignbox={{Campaignbox War Of Austrian Succession: King George's War}}

}}

File:Vigilant (1745) RMG J0895.png

The Capture of Vigilant was an incident in May 1745 of the naval warfare of King George's War. British forces captured the French vessel Vigilant off Nova Scotia.

It 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. 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.{{Cite book|title=Privateering in King George's war, 1739-1748 /|first=Howard M.|last=Chapin|date=January 29, 1928|publisher=Providence|hdl = 2027/txu.059173017850230}}

References

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[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tyng_edward_1683_1755_3E.html Canadian Biography - Edward Tyng]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=zSAwAAAAYAAJ&dq=vigilant+tyng+edward&pg=PA5 Memoirs of Edward Tyng, Esquire ... and of Hon. William Tyng ... By Edward Tyng, William Tyng, Timothy Alden]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=knIBAAAAQAAJ&dq=vigilant+tyng+edward&pg=PA211 Capture of the Vigilant, A particular history of the five years French and Indian war in New England ... By Samuel Gardner Drake p. 209]
{{cite book|last=McLennan|first=J.S.|authorlink=John Stewart McLennan|title=Louisbourg, from Its Foundation to Its Fall, 1713-1758|url=https://archive.org/details/louisbourgfromit00mcleuoft|year=1918|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/louisbourgfromit00mcleuoft/page/156 156], 177}}
[http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=2375 French third rate ship of the line 'Le Vigilant' (1744)]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=HRR_jglWhMC&dq=french+ship+vigilant&pg=PA244 Seeds of Discontent: The Deep Roots of the American Revolution, 1650-1750 By J. Revell Car, p. 244]
[http://www.blupete.com/Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part4/Ch10.htm#Vigilant Blue Pete]
{{cite book|last=Douglass|first=William|title=A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North-America ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWwFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1|volume=I|year=1755|publisher=R. Baldwin|location=Boston, New England|page=341}}

Category:Military history of Nova Scotia

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