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You are hereby required and directed to put to Sea in the Ship you command with the very first opportunity of Wind and Weather and proceed & cruize off Cape Finisterre from 5 to 20 Leagues N W for the Protection of the Trade of His Majesty's Subjects, and to use your best endeavours to intercept, seize or destroy any Cruizers or other Vessels belonging to the Rebellious Colonies of No America...
Date: 19 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
By the Viscount Howe, Vice Admiral of the White, and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed and to be employed &c. in North America
Whereas the Ships named and stationed as in the List herewith delivered, are intended to be employed in conjunction with the Land Forces under the Command of Major General Pigot1 for maintaining possession of Rhode Island and...
Date: 10 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
On the Alarm being given at 10 oClock at Night, by the advanced Ships in Providence River, of the approach of the Enemy, I Slip'd my Cable agreeable to your Orders, and put to Sea in Company with Captain Græme1 of His Majesty's Ship Sphynx, and having got off the Entrance of Narraganset Passage we discovered a Ship of the Enemy's at Half past Eleven, and kept Sight of her till after...
Date: 28 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The Rebel Brig of which you did me the Honor to advise me,1 made an attempt last Night, to push past, but by some accident grounded on the Reef, which you will observe marked near Wantons Cove;2 I went up this Morning with hopes that there was some possibility of annoying her with the gally;3 which I meant to have done by taking shelter under the NW point of Golds...
Date: 29 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11