=============+=========+====+===============+============================= NAME | CLASS |GUNS| ORIGIN | END -------------+---------+----+---------------+----------------------------- Alfred |Ship | 24 |Purchased, |Captured, March 9, 1778, | | | November, | off Senegal, in company | | | 1775 | with the _Raleigh_, by | | | | an inferior force. | | | | Columbus |Ship | 20 |Purchased, |Chased ashore, March, 1778, | | | November, | on Point Judith, and | | | 1775 | burned. | | | | Andrew Doria |Brig | 14 |Purchased, |Destroyed, October 7, 1777, | | | November, | in Delaware River, to | | | 1775 | prevent capture by | | | | greatly superior force. | | | | Cabot |Brig | 14 |Purchased, |Chased ashore, Nova Scotia, | | | November, | March, 1777, by British | | | 1775 | frigate; was got off, and | | | | taken into British service. | | | | Providence |Sloop | 12 |Purchased |Destroyed, August, 1779, | | | early in | Penobscot Expedition, to | | | 1776 | prevent capture by greatly | | | | superior force. | | | | Lexington |Brig | 16 |Purchased in |Captured, September 19, 1777, | | | 1776 | by British cutter | | | | _Alert_, 10. | | | | Reprisal |Brig | 16 |Purchased in |Lost, October, 1777, banks of | | | 1776 | Newfoundland, on | | | | return from Europe. | | | | Raleigh |Frigate | 32 |Built at |Chased ashore, September, | | | Portsmouth, | 1778, by greatly superior | | | N. H., 1776 | force, on Maine coast; | | | | hauled off, and taken into | | | | British service. | | | | Hancock |Frigate | 32 |Built at |Captured, July, 1777, off | | | Salisbury, | Cape Sambro, by | | | Mass., 1776 | _Rainbow_, 44. | | | |