Blenheim (1783 ship)

History
or Massachusetts
Name	Britannia
Builder	Philadelphia
Launched	1776
Renamed	American Tartar
Captured	August 1777
Great Britain
Name	HMS Hinchinbrook
Acquired	9 October 1777 by purchase of a prize
Fate	Sold 1783
Great Britain
Name	Blenheim
Acquired	1783 by purchase
Fate	Captured and burnt 1806
General characteristics
Tons burthen	300, or 318, or 321, or 331 (bm)
Complement	Privateer:150–200; Royal Navy:125;
Armament	Privateer; July 1777:20 × 9-pounder + 12 × 4-pounder guns; August 1777:10 × 9-pounder + 8 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 4-pounder + 4 × 3-poundeer guns; Royal Navy:16 × 6-pounder guns; Whaler:6 × 4-pounder guns;
Notes	Built of live oak and cedar

Blenheim may have been launched in 1776 in Philadelphia as Britannia. By 1777 she was the Massachusetts-based privateer American Tartar and had taken several prizes. She had also participated in an inconclusive single-ship action with a British merchantman. The British Royal Navy captured American Tartar late in 1777 and she became HMS Hinchinbrook. The Royal Navy sold her in 1783 and she became the West Indiaman Blenheim. In 1785-86 she became a Greenland whaler and she continued in that trade until two French frigates captured and burnt her in 1806.

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