French Ships of War, taken by the English, fince the commencement of Hoftilities with that Kingdom, which took place the 17th day of June, 1778. Befides the Le Cæfar of 74 guns, blown up, and Le Diademe of 74, funk by Admiral Rodney on the 12th of April, 1782; Valeur 26, and Reclufe 24 guns, burnt by Sir James Wallace's fquadron, in Cancale Bay. La Capricieuse 32 guns, taken by the Prudent and burnt; Le Legere 36 guns, deftroyed by the Nonfuch, and feveral others of leffer force. Spanish Ships of War, taken by the English, fince the commencement of Hoftilities with that Kingdom, which took place the 18th of June, 1779. Befides the San Domingo of 70 guns, blown up; the San Eugenio of 70, and the San Julian of 70 guns, driven on fhore by Admiral Rodney, and destroyed. Dutch Dutch Ships of War, taken by the English, fince the commencement of Hoftilities with the States of Holland, which took place the 20th day of December, 1780. Besides a 74 gun fhip, funk by Admiral Hyde Parker, off the Dogger Bank; and a Dutch Dogger of 18 guns, blown up by the Camelon. Congress Ships of War, taken by the English, fince the commencement of Hoftilities with America, which took place the 14th of June, 1774. Alfred Columbus Independence 20 and Together with the Bon Homme Richard, of 40 guns, commanded by Paul Jones, funk in an engagement with the Serapis of 44 guns, which fhe took before fhe went down. The Randolph of 36 guns, blown up near Barbadoes, by the Yarmouth of 64 guns, and only five of the crew faved: the Warren of 26 guns, burnt with 16 others of inferior force, at Penobscot, by Sir George Collier's fleet: 44 fail of armed floops, privateers, fchooners, with the Washington and Effingham frigates, of 32 guns each, burnt on the Delaware by Captain Henry of Lord Howe's fleet. As for the number of privateers, armed veffels, brigs, fchooners, cutters, and floops, of private property, that have been taken and destroyed belonging to the Americans fince the commencement of hoftilities, they are almoft innumerable, and would far exceed the limits of a fmall volume. English Ships of War taken by the French, fince the com mencement of the prefent Hoftilities, in 1778. 44 Minerva -32 Besides the Charon of 44, Guadaloupe 28, Fowey 24, Bonetta 24, and Vulcan fire-fhip, taken and deftroyed at York in Virginia; the Quebec of 32 guns, blown up in an engagement with the Surveillant of 40 guns; Captain Farmer of the Quebec, finding his ship totally on fire, leaped into the fea, and unfortunately perished, fooner than furrender. Captured by Spain. The Penelope English frigate of 28 guns, who had taken the Margate Spanish ship of war, and was conducting her to port, when the prifoners fell upon the crew of the Penelope, killed her Captain, and carried both ships fafe into the island of Cuba. One ship fince June, 1779. Captured by Holland. NONE! English ships of war captured by the Americans, fince the commencement of hoftilities in 1774. Serapis 44 guns, Scarborough 20, Sandwich 24, Drake 16, Atalanta 16, Thorn 16, and the General Monk of 14 guns. T English |