1. Sloop tender Hotham, tender to H.M, frigate Preston.
2. In Howe's Prize List of 30 Oct. 1778, four of the prizes are listed and credited to H.M.S. Preston, Capt. Samuel Uppleby, commander. The four prizes were: sloop Endeavour, Samuel McLennan, master; sloop Adventure, Robert Richardson, master; sloop Peggy, Jean Forest, master; and schooner Polly, Augustin Blanchard, master. All were listed as captured on 28 Mar. UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 484–90; H.C.A. 32/320/6, 32/262/7, 32/418/26, 32/424/8. The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury reported on 6 Apr. that the captured ships were out of Chincoteague, Va., that three of them had arrived at New York, and that the other two were "hourly expected.” On 13 Apr., the same newspaper reported that one of Hotham's prizes had been "ordered to the Chesapeak."
