Capture of La Croyable

7 July 1798, Off Egg Harbor, New Jersey

American success; the privateer captured

The new US Navy's first capture. The armed merchant ship Delaware, under Stephen Decatur Sr., found the French privateer schooner Croyable, which had been taking American ships off the coast, near Egg Harbor and took her without a fight. She was taken into the navy as Retaliation.