December 1776 Monday 30
C. Sable No 37 W. 12 Lgs at ½ past 3 AM brot too a sail, sent our Boat on board her, found her from Cork to Cadiz, taken off Lisbon Rock by a Rebel Privateer, took Possession of her 2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/548. Captain Henry Bellew and four men had been sent ashore sick at Halifax on December 9.
2. "The Providence, Penlerick, from Corke to Lisbon, is re-taken by the Liverpoole Man of War, and carried into Halifax," Public Advertiser, London, March 26, 1777.
