The Saber and Scroll Journal Volume 9, Number 3, Winter 2020 | Page 149

The Continental Navy ’ s Shakedown Cruise

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Miller , Nathan . Sea of Glory : The Continental Navy Fights for Independence , 1775 – 1783 . New York : David McKay Company , 1974 .

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Notes

1 “ Esek Hopkins and the Formation of the Continental Navy ,” Redwood Library & Athenaeum , accessed June 26 , 2020 . https :// www . redwoodlibrary . org / blog / lwhite / 2016 / 12 / 20 / esek-hopkins-and-formation-continental-navy ; “ Esek Hopkins : 26 April 1718 – 26 February 1802 ,” Naval History and Heritage Command , accessed June 26 , 2020 . https :// www . history . navy . mil / browse-by-topic / people / historical-figures / esek-hopkins . html .

2 “ Esek Hopkins and the Formation of the Continental Navy ”; Dixon and Hunter , “ New York , April 10 ,” Virginia Gazette , April 27 , 1776 , 3 . https :// research . colonial williamsburg . org / DigitalLibrary / va-gazettes / VGSinglePage . cfm ? issueIDNo = 76 . DH . 19 & page = 3 & res = LO ; William Bell Clark , “ The Letters of Captain Nicholas Biddle ,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 74 , no . 3 ( July 1950 ): 385 .

3 “ Naval Committee to Commodore Esek Hopkins , January 5 , 1776 ,” in Naval Documents of the American Revolution . Vol . 3 ( Washington , DC : US Government Printing Office , 1968 ), 638 .

4 Ibid . 5 Ibid .

6 According to the ship ’ s log kept by Captain John Barry on September 12 , 1775 , Black Prince sailed 237 miles in a twenty-four-hour period . Tim McGrath , John Barry : An American Hero in the Age of Sail ( Yardley : Westholme Publishing , 2010 ), 51 ; Nathan Miller , Sea of Glory : The Continental Navy Fights for Independence , 1775 – 1783 ( New York : David McKay Company , 1974 ), 2 .

7 “ Journal of the Continental Congress , December 13 , 1775 ,” in Naval Documents 3 , 90 ; Miller , Sea of Glory , 528 .

8 Tim McGrath , Give Me a Fast Ship : The Continental Navy and America ’ s Revolution at Sea ( New York : NAL Caliber , 2014 ), 48 – 49 .

9 “ Commodore Esek Hopkins to Captain Nicholas Biddle ,” in Naval Documents 3 , 1291 ; Alverda S . Beck , The Letter Book of Esek Hopkins , Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy , 1775 – 1777 ( Providence : Rhode Island Historical Society , 1932 ), 44 , 47 .

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