_Prince de Neufchâtel_, American privateer, ii. 253; attacked by the British frigate _Endymion_, iii. 202–207. _Prince of Orange_, British brig, captured by the _Surprise_, i. 124, 125. _Prince Regent_, British ship, iii. 129. _Princeton_, Ericsson’s first screw steamship, iv. 12; Captain Stockton assigned to her, 14; the “Peacemaker,” one of her guns, bursts, _ib._; her success pronounced, _ib._ Pring, Captain, in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. 166; surrenders, _ib._ Prisoners, American, in England, bad treatment of, i. 122. Prisons, British, iii. 288–304. Privateer and a letter of marque, difference between, iii. 242. Privateers, commissioned by Congress, i. 33; authorized by General Court of Massachusetts, 196; by Connecticut and Rhode Island, 197; by General Washington, _ib._; work accomplished by them up to 1777, 217; another account of them, 220, 221; captured prisoners from privateers on prison-ship _Jersey_, 221–226; result of licensing of, iii. 324. Privateers, American, capture sixteen English cruisers during the Revolutionary War, i. 302. Privateers in the War of 1812, only a few made money, ii. 233–258; two hundred and fifty commissioned during the war, 240. Proctor, General, his incursion into Ohio prevented by the result of the battle of Lake Erie, ii. 333. _Protector_, American gun-ship, blows up the British privateer _Admiral Duff_, i. 207; beats off the frigate _Thames_, _ib._ _Providence_, brig of first American Navy, i. 39, 57; commanded by Captain John P. Rathburne, descends on New Providence, Bahamas, 186. _Quaker City_, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad _Palmetto State_, iv. 474. Quallah Battoo, Malays of, attacked by the American frigate _Potomac_, iii. 373, 374; bombarded by the _Columbia_, 376. _Queen Charlotte_, British ship, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 296; sunk in Little Bay, 337. _Queen of France_, American ship, i. 280, 281. _Queen of the West_, Federal ram, at Fort Pillow, iv. 301; sinks the _Lowell_, _ib._; rammed by the _Beauregard_, _ib._; sent to attack Port Hudson, 351; abandoned by the Federals, 352. _Racehorse_, British brig, captured by the _Andrea Doria_, i. 69. Radford, Captain William, absent from duty, iv. 201. _Rainbow_, British gun-ship, captures the _Hancock_, i. 185. Rais Hammida, the terror of the Mediterranean, iii. 344, 346; killed, 347. _Raleigh_, American man-of-war, sent to France, i. 130; attacks the _Druid_, 131; loads her supplies, 132; returns to America, 133; captured, 194. _Raleigh_, Confederate gun-boat, assists in taking crew off the _Congress_, iv. 208. _Randolph_, American frigate, i. 160; blown up, 162. Ransom paid to the Dey of Algiers, i. 309, 310. Ransom, Lieutenant George M., iv. 315.