Commanders were allowed $4 and $5 a week for rations, and lieutenants, captains of marines, surgeons, and chaplains, $4. Prize money coming to the officers and seamen of the Continental navy was divided in shares: captains, 6; first lieutenant, 5; second lieutenant, 4; surgeon, 4; master, 3; steward, 2; mate, 1½; gunner, 1½; boatswain, 1½; gunner’s mate, 1½; sergeant, 1½; privates, 1. Maclay notes that the first system of uniforms was adopted for the Continental navy on the 5th of September, 1776, when the Marine Committee decided that the uniform for the officers of the navy should be as follows: Captains, a coat of blue cloth with red lapels, slashed cuffs, a stand-up collar, flat yellow buttons, blue breeches, and a red waistcoat with yellow lace. The uniform for lieutenants consisted of a blue coat with red lapels, a round cuff faced, a stand-up collar, yellow buttons, blue breeches, and a plain red waistcoat. Masters were to have a blue coat with lapels, round cuffs, blue breeches, and a red waistcoat; while midshipmen had a blue coat with lapels, a round cuff faced with red, a stand-up collar, with red at the buttons and buttonholes, blue breeches, and a red waistcoat. The marines were to have a green coat faced with white, round cuffs, slashed sleeves and pockets, with buttons around the cuff, a silver epaulet on the right shoulder, skirts turned back, buttons to suit the facings, white waistcoat and breeches edged with green, black gaiters and garters. The men were to have green shirts “if they can be procured.” INDEX _Abby Bradford_, merchant-ship, capture of, by the _Sumter_, iv. 412; captured by the frigate _Powhatan_, 413. _Abellino_, Yankee privateer, captures prizes in the Mediterranean, iii. 343. _Acasta_, British gun-boat, attacks the _Constitution_, iii. 260. Acquia Creek, Potomac River, capture of Confederate forts at, iv. 66, 81–83. _Active_, British brig, captured by the _Hazard_, i. 206. _Adams_, American frigate, changed to a corvette, iii. 54; Captain Charles Morris in command of, 57; on the coast of Africa, 58; chased by the _Tigris_, 59; scurvy on board, 60; runs on a rock, 61; attacked on the Penobscot, 62; burned, _ib._ Adams, Captain H. A., disloyal conduct of, iv. 117. Adams, John, member of first Marine Committee, i. 36. Adams, Samuel, and the Boston tea-party, i. 12. _Adelaide_, Federal transport, iv. 100. _Adeline_, American brig, recaptured from the British, ii. 74. _Admiral Duff_, British privateer, blown up by the _Protector_, i. 207. _Adriana_, American brigantine, Ambassador to Holland sails on, iv. 153. _Adventure_, British ship, burned by Paul Jones, i. 78. _Africa_, British ship-of-the-line, ii. 55. Africa, making the coast of, safe for American traders, iii. 340–358. _Aiken_, Southern revenue cutter, converted into the Confederate privateer _Petrel_, iv. 93.