The tale of the last voyage of the Rhode Island privateer sloop Swallow begins in Westport in the middle of August, in the year 1777, and ends in the Caribbean a month later. The story is one of the ...

The story of the Rhode Island privateer sloop Charming Sally is one of the more interesting tales of the American Revolution and the unusual collection of men who came together and gambled life, limb ...

THE following journal was written by the Captain’s Quartermaster on board the Sloop Revenge, of Newport, Rhode Island, on a cruise against the Spaniards in the year 1741. Rhode Island was famous at ...

WE left our privateer, the Revenge, Captain Norton, of Newport, Rhode Island, making sail for New Providence, with her lately captured prize. There was an English Court of Admiralty established on ...