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Wednesday Evening last Capt. Luce, in a Brig, bound from this Port to Maryland, in Ballast, ran aground in the Bay; next Morning the Vessel was got off, but being closely pursued by one of the Enemy's Frigates,1 Capt. Luce was obliged to run her on the Naraganset Shore, where he Sat fire to her, after getting out the Sails, &c.
Date: 13 December 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Last Week arrived at a neighbouring Port1 the Providence Sloop of War, of 12 Guns, in the Service of the United States, John Rathbun, Esq; Commander. About a Month since Capt. Rathbun entered the Harbour of New-Providence, in the Night, where he landed 30 Men, 15 of which scaled the Walls of the Fort,2 by means of Rope-Ladders, and got Possession, where they found only one...
Date: 7 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Saturday last a large Sloop being observed from an eastern Port, standing westward, Capt. Charles Jenckes, of this Town, went in a Boat, with 7 Men, and brought her in. She proved to be a Transport from Halifax, bound to Rhode Island, laden with Coal for the Troops, having one Swivel and two Musquets, but made no Defence. The Crew, which consisted of 4 Seamen, beside the Captain and Mate, have...
Date: 11 April 1778
Volume: Volume 12
The Snow1 lately taken by the Warren Frigate2 is safe arrived at a neighbouring Port.3 Her other Prize, a Ship from Whitehaven,4 was retaken by the Orpheus Frigate, within six Hours Sail of Boston, and brought into Newport.
Date: 18 April 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Tuesday Morning last, on receiving the very interesting Intelligence from France inserted in this Day's Gazette,1 Thirteen Cannon were discharged at the Battery on Fox-Point, and a like Number on board the Providence Frigate.2 At Sunset the Salutes were repeated, followed by a Feu de Joy from Col. Tillinghast's Artillery Company,3 a Detachment of Col. Elliott's...
Date: 25 April 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Capt. Whipple,1 in the Providence Frigate, who sailed from this Port last Week, in his Passage down the Bay was fired on by the Lark Frigate, which lay near Warwick-Neck, and had got under Way. Capt. Whipple returned the Compliment with a Broadside, and we since learn killed 3 and wounded 17 of the Lark's Crew; her Hull and Rigging were likewise much damaged. The Juno Frigate, the...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
We learn that Capt. Allen Brown, late of this Place, died at Rhode-Island a few Days since. He was Prize-Master of a Ship1 taken by the Warren Frigate,2 and retaken by the Enemy,3 and carried to Newport, where, from the inhuman Practice of confining the sick and well Prisoners indiscriminately; he took the Small-Pox, which put a Period to his Life. He was several...
Date: 23 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Tuesday last arrived at a safe Port a Prize Ship,1 with upwards of 300 Pipes of Wine; she was bound from Madeira to Barbados, where she had but just anchored, when she was cut from her Moorings by Capt. Bishop, in the Privateer Sloop Barton, of this Port.2
Capt. James Munro, in the Privateer Ship Blaze Castle, of this Port, has taken and sent into Martinico a Brig from...
Date: 30 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12