Journal of H.M. Frigate Emerald, Captain Benjamin Caldwell, April 8, 1778

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April 1778

Tuesday 8^th

[Hampton Church NWBN, Old Point

Comfort, NEBN, Sowels Point SBW.]

[PM] Ditto Wea^r. [Moderate Wea^r.] Completed the Ship to 3 months Provisions, Carpenters and armo[r]ers employed as before;¹ sent our Tender up to Baltimore with some of the officers and men belonging to the Virginia.

D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/311.

1. Continental Navy frigate Virginia was captured on 31 Mar. 1778 after running aground near the entrance to Chesapeake Bay where the ship's rudder broke off and was lost. NDAR 11: 848–49. Carpenters and armorers from Emerald worked on board H.M.S. St. Albans to construct a substitute (finished on 11 Apr.) to allow the captured frigate to proceed to New York.

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1778 April 8

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American Theatre from April 1, 1778 to May 31, 1778

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