Journal of H.M.S. Emerald, Captain Benjamin Caldwell, April 11, 1778

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April 1778

Saturday 11^th

[Hampton Church NWBN, Old Point

Comfort, NEBN, Sowels Point SBW.]

at 10 AM anchor^d. here a Sloop from New York;¹ got the machine from the S^t. Albans to the Virginia,² at Noon employed fixing it.

[Hampton Church NWBN, Old Point

Comfort, NEBN, Sowels Point SBW.]

Ditto Wea^r. [Moderate Wea^r.] at 2 PM departed this life Jn^o. Reynolds Seaman, at 6 PM got the machine fixed onboard the Virginia;

D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/311.

1. In the journal entry of H.M.S. St. Albans for this date, Capt. Richard Onslow identifies this vessel as "the Nautilus Tender," which presumably means it was the tender of H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Nautilus, Capt. John Collins, commander.

2. Continental Navy frigate Virginia, Capt. James Nicholson, commander, 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 St. Albans in constructing a substitute rudder to permit the captured frigate to sail to New York.

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Date

1778 April 11

Volume

Volume 12

Series

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