March 1778 Wednesdy 11th.
[anchored off Philadelphia] [AM] Sent a Midshipman & 7 Men to Assist in fitting the Philadelphia Gally— [anchored off Philadelphia] Little Wind with Sleet & rain [PM] people Employd on Sundrys, The Experiment, Brune & Convoy from Rhode Isld arrived at Billingsport, and the Hay [transports] proceeded up to the Town, also the Nottingham Transport Laden with Stores for the Army from Cork.1 In their way up the Men of War destroy'd the Transport that had fallen into the Enemys Hands at Port Pen and retook the Schooner2
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1964, fols. 90-91.
1. Transport ship Nottingham, L. Bowden, master, 28 guns, 600 tons burthen, three decks, built on the Thames River in 1764, owned by Durand & Co., London. Lloyd's Register of Ships, 1777-1778.
2. On 9 Mar. the transports Kitty and Mermaid with hay were burned at Port Penn, Del., by Capt. John Barry. The armed schooner Alert, Daniel Moore, master, was recaptured the same day by H.M.S. Experiment and H.M.S. Brune from Barry's armed boats north of Reedy Island. See Captain John Barry to General George Washington, 9 Mar., above, and Captain James Ferguson to Vice Admiral Viscount Howe, 27 Mar., below.