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As great Inconveniency attends his Majesty's Interest, by protecting his loyal Subjects, and their Property in Virginia, and as they have suffered considerably in their Effects, and likely to suffer much more by a further Detention, Capt.A. S. Hammond, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships on this Station, and Lord Dunmore, have took into Government Service every Vessel in the Fleet that is...
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Yankee Hero Privateer, was sold here for 850 l. Sterling, to the Hon. John Butler, Esq; who has fitted her out to cruize against the Provincials. The Liverpool Man of War has been very succ[e]ssful in taking and retaking of Vessels, one of the latter, called the Nevis, from the Island of Nevis, and said to be worth 20,000 l. Sterling, he retook just as she was entering Boston Harbour; t'was...
Date: 25 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Letters from Philadelphia, brought by the Lion,1 Wilson, by Way of Cadiz, dated April 1, mention, that three Ships, laden with Flour, which sailed the 30th of March from that Place for a foreign Market, after being out six Days, were pursued and take by two of our Ships of War, who carried them to some of the West India Islands, and that several more were then loading there with Flour...
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In the Dublin Journal are the following Articles, dated Corke, May 28:
The Morres [Morris], Captain [Thomas] Bell, about 250 Tons Burthen, the Property of Morres and Williams [Willing, Morris & Co.] of Philadelphia, sailed from Havre the 17th inst. for the said Place with 300 Casks of Gunpowder, each Cask equal in Size to a Beef half Barrel 5000 Pigs of Lead, a considerable Quantity of...
Date: 28 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday arrived in the River the John and James, Baker, from Alicant; which brings letters that say, there were six American vessels taking in goods there for Philadelphia, but do not say what sort of goods, but only that the Americans carry on an extensive trade to those ports.
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
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
Letters from Holland say, that the States have issued out an Order for no Ship to take Arms or Ammunition to any Part of his Britannic Majesty's Dominions, on the Forfeiture of the Ship and Cargo, and Imprisonment of the Officers belonging to such Ships; the Order to continue in Force so long as the Americans continue in Arms against their Sovereign.
Advice is received by Tuesday's Irish Mail,...
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
All the Ships at Barbadoes, homeward bound, wait there for the Arrival of Men of War from England to convoy them home, they not daring to stir on account of the Multiplicity of American Privateers.
Date: 10 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
By a letter from Liverpool we are informed, that the Fleet which plundered the Island of New Providence, consisted of seven Sail, Commodore Hopkins, Commander, viz. two Ships of 30 Guns each; two Brigantines of 14 Guns; one Sloop of 12 Guns, and one of six Guns; and one Schooner of Eight Guns. They took Governor Brown and Secretary Babbedge [James Babbidge] Prisoners, and a Mr. Irvin [Thomas...
Date: 16 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
This Morning arrived at Cove, from Bourdeaux, the Brig Neptune, Capt. Hawkins, who says, there were 12 Sail of American Vessels there loading for America, and that they were getting large Quantities of Gunpowder.
Date: 24 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
By the Jackson, Sharp, which arrived Yesterday in 14 Days from Lisbon, we have Advice that there were at the Time of his Departure, twenty-four American Vessels in the Tagus, which with those at the other Ports had Orders to quit the Kingdom in nine Days, and that an English Man of War was cruizing off Lisbon in order to make Prizes of them.
Date: 25 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
Last Night arrived the Mercury, of Nantucket, for London, taken the 25th of July [sic June] by the Cerberus, Captain Symonds [John Symons] , off Block Island, from her Return on a Whale Voyage; she has also on board a Cargo of a Schooner which had been also a Whaling, which the Cerberus burnt: The Master of the Prize is Henry Spencer, who says the Cerberus has taken sixteen Prizes;
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