HMS Viper (1777)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Viper.

History
Naval Ensign of MassachusettsMassachusetts
NameViper
OwnerWalter Spooner & Stephen Bruce
Commissioned9 September 1776
Captured26 September 1776
Great Britain
NameHMS Viper
Acquired
  • Capture:26 September 1776
  • Purchase: 17 July 1777
FateBroken up October 1779
General characteristics
Tons burthenc.70[1] (bm)
PropulsionSails
Sail planSchooner
Complement
  • Privateer:30-50[1]
  • British service:50
Armament
  • Privateer: 6 × 4-pounder guns + 8 × swivel guns[1]
  • British service: 10 × 3-pounder guns

HMS Viper was the Massachusetts privateer schooner Viper that HMS Perseus captured on 26 September 1776. The Royal Navy purchased Viper in 1777. She then was broken up in New York in 1779.

  1. ^ a b c "Benjamin Wormell commissioned as commander of the schooner Viper"