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Scarborough Encounters Spanish Fleet Off Tortuga
The Scarborough 26 guns and about 110 men, under Captain Durell, returned from Sal Tortuga near Barbadoes after pursuing two Spanish men of war. The Englishmen captured four ships, including the Katherine, Two Sisters, and Hopewell, with no English casualties. The report also notes PMs, parliamentary business, and other London notices from June 1733.
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Scarborough
Durell
Sal Tortuga
Barbadoes
Adon
Katherine
Andrew Woodbury
Samuel Brown
Salem
New-England
Habakkuk Gardiner
Benjamin Brown
Hopewell
John Wells
Thomas Mutchinson
Boston
Wner