Journal of H.M.S. Roebuck, Captain Andrew Snape Hamond, March 10, 1778

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March 1778
Tuesd^y. 10^th.

[alongside Cuthberts Wharf, Philadelphia]
AM at 9 Sent the Cornwallis galley & Pembroke to the Nautilus in order to go down the River on Information of 3 Vessells being Taken by some Rebel Gun-Boats—¹
[alongside Cuthberts Wharf, Philadelphia]
D^o: W^r. [Fresh Breezes] PM at 2 Haul'd of[f] in the Stream at 4 the Deleware & Camilla haul'd out in the Stream

D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/4311.

1. Nautilus was off Billingsport. The three vessels were the transports Kitty and Mermaid with forage and the armed schooner Alert, Daniel Moore, master, of the British Army's Engineers Department. See Captain James Ferguson, R.N., to Vice Admiral Viscount Howe, 27 Mar. below. They had been taken on 7 Mar. off Reedy Island by Capt. John Barry commanding a force of two barges from the Continental frigate Effingham and three Pennsylvania Navy armed boats. See Captain John Barry to General George Washington, 9 Mar., above.

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1778 March 10

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Hamond, Andrew Snape (Capt., R.N.)

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American Theatre from January 1, 1778 to March 31, 1778

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