in Boston harbour on 6 August 1782 when Admiral the Marquis de Vaudreuil sailed in with ten ships-of-the-line. Allegiance was unable to escape and so Phips surrendered to the French 74-gun Northumberland. The French Navy bought her in November or December. On 14 October 1782, the sloop Tartar, tender to Allegiance, libeled the sloop Sally in the Halifax Vice admiralty court. recaptured Allegiance on 23 January 1783. The French were using her as a transport and she was carrying 200 troops. The British apparently took her back to Jamaica but did not take her back into service. Citations and references Citations References Brown, Richard (F.G.S.) (1899) The coal fields and coal trade of the island of Cape Breton. (Maritime Mining Record Office). Clowes, W. Laird, et al. (1897-1903) The royal navy: a history from the earliest times to the present. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston and Co.). Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). McBurney, Christian (2016) Abductions in the American Revolution: Attempts to Kidnap George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Other Military and Civilian Leaders. (McFarland). Tennyson, Brian Douglas, & Roger Sarty (2000) Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton, and the Atlantic Wars. (University of Toronto). Vice Admiralty court: American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812; the records of the Vice-admiralty court at Halifax, Nova Scotia. (1911) (Salem, Mass.: The Essex institute). 1770s ships Captured ships Sloops of the Royal Navy