Noah Stoddard

In the raid, Stoddard led four other privateer vessels and attacked the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on July 1, 1782.

[4] Stoddard was involved in the first naval engagement of the American Revolution, Battle off Fairhaven, when patriots retrieved two vessels that had been captured by the British sloop of war, Falcon, in Buzzards Bay.

Nathaniel Pope of Fairhaven in the sloop Success (40 guns, 30 men) retrieved two vessels captured by the British crew of Captain John Linzee (Lindsey), Royal Navy commander of HMS Falcon (14 guns, 110 men).

[10] On 21 and 23 April 1780 Iris, Delaware, and Otter captured the American vessels Amazon, General Wayne, and Neptune.

Soon after, he rescued the 60 American prisoners on board HMS Blonde, which had wrecked on Seal Island, Nova Scotia.