"HMS Savage (1778)" redirects here. For other ships of that name, see HMS Savage.
Capture of HMS Savage
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Painting of American privateer Congress capturing HMS Savage
Date
September 6, 1781
Location
off Charleston, South Carolina, Atlantic Ocean
Result
U.S. victory
Belligerents
United States
Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
George Geddes
Charles Stirling
Strength
1 sloop-of-war
1 sloop-of war
Casualties and losses
11 killed ~30 wounded 1 sloop-of-war damaged
8 killed 26 wounded 1 sloop-of-war captured
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Atlantic naval theatre
Nassau
Block Island
Turtle Gut Inlet
Barbados
Yarmouth
Capture of USS Hancock
Frederica
North Channel
Charles Town
1st Long Island
1st Cape Henry
Cape Split
Cape Breton
Capture of USS Trumbull
Cape Ann
1st Chesapeake
Capture of HMS Savage
1st Delaware Bay
Halifax
2nd Cape Henry
Hudson Bay
2nd Long Island
2nd Delaware Bay
Kedges Strait
3rd Delaware Bay
2nd Chesapeake Bay
The Capture of HMS Savage was a naval battle of the American Revolutionary War involving the American privateer Congress and the British sloop-of-war HMS Savage. It occurred in September 1781 off South Carolina and is considered one of the hardest-fought single ship actions of the war.[1]
^Lewis, J.D. (2009). "The American Revolution in South Carolina: Coast off Charleston, September 6, 1781". Carolana. Archived from the original on 2019-08-09.
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