American Revolutionary War
On 13 May 1774, Lively arrived in Boston. She brought with her General Thomas Gage, commissioned as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Lively was part of the British fleet that blockaded the port of Boston to enforce the Boston Port Act, a punishment of that city for the Boston Tea Party. Following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in April 1775, she remained part of the British presence during the Siege of Boston, and was the first ship to fire at the fortifications erected by the American colonial militia, helping to spark the Battle of Bunker Hill.
In 1776 she cruised off Marblehead. She captured a number of vessels off Cape Ann: in February the schooner Tartar; in May an unknown sloop (unknown because the crew abandoned her and fled, taking all her papers with them); on 26 June, Lively, Milford and Hope took the schooner Lydia, bound for the West Indies. The Vice-Admiralty Court at Halifax, Nova Scotia ruled all three to be prizes.
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