The next of the squadron to get to sea was the brig _Cabot_, of fourteen guns. She sailed under Capt. Elisha Hinman the latter part of May, and was gone until October 5th. She sent in seven prizes during this time. Even the crank old _Columbus_ made a successful cruise. Under the command of Capt. Abraham Whipple, whose paving-stones had captured the _Gaspé_, she took four prizes while at sea between May and August. Meantime the schooner _Wasp_, under Capt. Charles Alexander, took the British bark _Betsey_ on May 9th, while in October, under Lieutenant Baldwin, she captured three more prizes. [Illustration: Facsimile of Account between Dudley Saltonstall and Elisha Hinman. _From the original at the Lenox Library._] A notable event of the year was the adventure of the _Lexington_ under Capt. William Hallock. She was returning from the West Indies loaded with powder and other military stores, when she was captured by the British frigate _Pearl_. There was such a high sea running at the time that the captain of the _Pearl_ decided, after taking four or five men out of the _Lexington_, not to transfer the rest of her crew to his own ship. So he placed her in charge of a prize crew, with orders to follow the _Pearl_. As night came on, the gale increased and the sea became more boisterous. The prize officers, thinking no danger was to be apprehended from the prisoners under such circumstances, slacked up in their vigilance, and eventually both the prize captain and the officer of the deck went below for a comforting toddy. At that the watchful Yankees knocked the British sailor from the tiller and the guards to the deck, secured the companionway against the exit of the officers, and, putting up the helm, headed away for Baltimore, where they arrived safely. A leading spirit in this recapture was Master’s Mate Richard Dale, who afterwards, as the executive officer of the _Bonhomme Richard_, under John Paul Jones, won lasting honor. Another stirring event of this year was the fight between the Yankee brig _Andrea Doria_ and the British brig _Racehorse_. It was the more stirring for the reason that the _Racehorse_ had been sent out expressly to capture the Yankee, and it was a fair and even match, ship for ship.