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An old Seaman remarks, that the Provincial Squadron cannot be very formidable, since the Glasgow, an old 20 Gun Ship, engaged and beat the whole Squadron: However, none of them are taken, as was at first reported.
The Glasgow Man of War, of 20 Guns, and 160 Men, was attacked by Commodore Hopkins's Fleet on the 20th of April [sic April 6] off Newport in Rhode-Island; and notwithstanding the...
Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A private Letter from Philadelphia has the following Article:
"...We have now fifty Sail of armed Ships from twenty to forty guns, well manned and well stored; and we have larger ships building, besides what are in other Parts; so that in a short time we shall have a very powerful Navy."
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Jane (formerly the Minerva) [James] Fulton, a transport from Clyde to Boston, was taken by the Provincials on the 6th of May, and carried into Salem.1
The Jane, Fulton, taken by the Provincials, had a cargo on board, worth upwards of 6000 l. which is mostly insured at Glasgow.
A Gentleman who came from Georgia, and arrived in Town last Friday, says, that when they left America they...
Date: 3 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The following is the purport of the intelligence received by Captain Furse, who left Boston the 1st of June, 1776, and arrived at Bristol after a passage of thirty days:... The Alfred, Columbus, and a brig, part of Commodore Hopkins's Fleet, arrived from New London at Newport the 29th of April. Both those harbours are now fortified. At Philadelphia a vast supply of arms, ammunition, and stores of...
Date: 12 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Sloop St. Peter, of New-York, under Dutch Colours, from St. Ustatia to Amsterdam with Tobacco, Sugar and Rum, is taken by the Dolphin Cutter, Capt. Miller, and brought into Cowes.
They write from Boston, that the Privateers yet at Sea are mostly small; but there are a great many on the Stocks, which will be soon launched, to carry from 16 to 24 Guns; and several Frigates are building, and...
Date: 15 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Advice is received from St. Maloes, that the Americans carry on a very extensive trade to that place; that no less than seven vessels arrived there the first week in June, and at the time the account came away, there were four more just arrived.
The certain accounts daily received of the many captures made by the American privateers, have roused the Underwriters from their lethargy; the Ministry...
Date: 19 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Letters from Barbadoes, dated the 5th of June, mention that six American Whale Fishing Ships were taken off that Island by a, Man of War, who carried off five of them to Antigua, where they are since safe arrived; we have received no Intelligence of the other.
The St. James, Captain Wilson, from Jamaica, for Bristol, one of the Ships that was reported to have been taken by the Provincials, was...
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Letters from Jamaica, of the 26th of May, mention that Capt. [Alan] Gardner, of the Maidstone Man of War, had just brought into that Port an American Ship under French Colours, having 20 Tons of Gunpowder on board, with 1200 Stands of Arms, and a great Quantity of other warlike Stores.1
Date: 26 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The nine English Ships, mentioned in Saturday's Paper, were all taken by two Provincial Privateers, with the greatest Ease, after they had been convoyed 150 Leagues from the Ports they respectively sailed from, and left by the Men of War under a Supposition that they were totally out of Danger. The privateers which took them were but thinly manned, and weakly armed. One carried ten and the other...
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
When the Advice arrived on Friday last, relative to the Captures made on our Shipping by the Americans, all the West-India Merchants immediately locked up their Warehouses, as not knowing what Value to set on Rum and Sugar, and the other Commodities produced in the American Islands.
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A private Letter from Philadelphia, which came by the Way of Ireland, says, that the General Congress have sent Agents to Genoa, and other Ports, to purchase Ships of War from 40 to 80 Guns;1 and have ordered, in every Port they have, large Ships to be built as fast as possible, as they intend next Spring to have a very powerful Fleet.
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday Morning arrived in the River the Baltimore, Capt. Bennett, from New Providence, which ship brought home Capt. Stevens [Christopher Stephenson] of the Lady Juliana, and Capt. Rusdan. [Keylock Rusden] of the Reynolds, Jamaica Ships, which were taken by the Provincial Privateers.
Date: 1 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday Morning Insurance on Ships from Jamaica for London was done at 20 l. and from the Leeward Islands at 15 per Cent.
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Admiral Gayton's Order for the Merchantmen to rendezvous at Blue Fields, and to be convoyed from thence an hundred and fifty Leagues on their Passage to England, was certainly communicated to the Provincials, as the Ships which were taken were met with by the Privateers, not twenty four Hours after they were quitted by the Men of War.
There being so many of our Ships of War on the American Coast...
Date: 6 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Yankee Privateer, taken from the Americans, we are informed, is going to be fitted as a Tender to carry the Seamen, that enter at the Houses of Rendezvous, to the Ships of War at the different Sea Ports.
Sunday Morning at Three o'Clock twenty of the Prisoners taken in the Yankie Privateer were conveyed by Water to be lodged in Dover Castle. Among these twenty there are only three Native...
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A vessel that is arrived at Weymouth from St. Cas[t], brings advice, that two armed American vessels were lying there, to take in some powder, balls and arms; and, it is supposed, that one of them is the vessel which was seen by the master of a fishing boat at the mouth of the Channel a few days ago.
Date: 9 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The West India Ships, lately taken by the Americans, will, it is said, occasion a pathetic Remonstrance, shortly to be presented at St. James's.
The Method by which the Yankey Privateer was taken was as follows: Capt. Johnson (of the Yankey) [James] Hodges, and [George] Ross1 were sitting together in the Cabbin, when Johnson having inadvertently laid down his Cutlass, Ress and Hodges...
Date: 12 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Captain Groves, of the Tyne Packet, who is arrived at Falmouth from Jamaica, was obliged to work up as far as Cape Nichola Mole, to get what Information he could of the American Privateers; when he was informed that a great many American Vessels were cruizing about the Windward Passage; in particular that two large armed Vessels were cruizing near Crooked Island, viz. a Brig mounting 16 Guns and...
Date: 14 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Yankee Privateer, with her Guns and all her Stores, is ordered to be sold immediately, that the Purchase Money may be divided amongst those Persons who took her, as most of them want to go to Sea, but wait to receive their Dividends.
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday George Ross, Master of a Vessel in the Merchants Service, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, being charged with a Breach of the Peace against Mr. Alderman [William] Lee, upon the Royal Exchange, and threatening "to do for him in another Place."1 His Conduct appearing to have been exceedingly outrageous, he was bound over in a Recognizance of...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6