Up to the peace signed September 3, 1783, privateering had continued active, 383 letters of marque being granted by Congress in 1782, but the Continental navy had practically disappeared. There were but five ships remaining: the frigates _Alliance_, _Hague_, and _Bourbon_ (the last not yet launched), and the ships _General Washington_ and _Duc de Lauzun_. Only the first two were in commission. Our only line-of-battle ship, the newly launched _America_, had been given to France to replace the _Magnifique_, wrecked coming into Boston harbor. The few ships mentioned gradually disappeared: the _Duc de Lauzun_ was sent to France as a transport and sold; the _Bourbon_, launched at Middletown, Connecticut, July 31, 1783, was advertised for sale two months later, as was the _Hague_ in August; the _General Washington_ was sold the next year. Sentiment preserved the _Alliance_ until August, 1785, when, with her sale, the Continental navy passed into history. * * * * * To recapitulate some data of the first chapter: The British navy had at the beginning of the war 270 ships, of which 131 were of the line (from 100 to 60 guns), and but 18,000 seamen. At the end, January 20, 1783, there were 468 ships, of which 174 were of the line, and 110,000 seamen. They had lost (taken, destroyed, burned, foundered, or wrecked) 202 ships carrying 5,130 guns. The Continental and state navies had lost (taken, destroyed, burned, foundered, or wrecked) 39 ships, carrying 876 guns. The French had lost (in all the ways just mentioned) 72 ships, with 2,636 guns; the Spanish 24, with 960 guns; the Dutch 9, with 364 guns. The British during the war lost 3,087 merchant vessels, taken by Americans, French, Dutch, and Spanish; 879 of these were retaken or ransomed. They lost 89 privateers, of which 14 were retaken or ransomed. They captured 1,135 merchantmen, of which only 27 were retaken or ransomed, and 216 privateers, of which only one was retaken.[11] The net result was heavily against them.