The ship Black Prince is to be finished this day, and mount 30 guns, also a large brig 14 guns, and a 40 gun ship, to be be built by order of our Assembly,2 who have struck Eight Thousand Pounds more for the defence of this Place.
1. Dunlap's Maryland Gazette, Baltimore, November 21, 1775.
2. The writer refers to the Pennsylvania armed ship Montgomery, which mounted fourteen 18-pounders, and sixteen cohorns (small mortars).
