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Two ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name ''Gaspee'': |
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*''Gaspee'' (1763) was a revenue [[schooner]] famously destroyed in the 1772 [[Gaspee Affair]] in [[Narragansett Bay]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bartlett|first=John Russell|title=A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th June, 1772|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofdestruc00bart|year=1861|publisher=A. C. Greene, printer to the state}}</ref> |
*''Gaspee'' (1763) was a revenue [[schooner]] famously destroyed in the 1772 [[Gaspee Affair]] in [[Narragansett Bay]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bartlett|first=John Russell|title=A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th June, 1772|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofdestruc00bart|year=1861|publisher=A. C. Greene, printer to the state}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 23:52, 4 September 2020
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Gaspee:
- Gaspee (1763) was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspee Affair in Narragansett Bay.[1]
- Gaspee (1773) was a brig that saw service in North America during the American Revolutionary War.
References
- ^ Bartlett, John Russell (1861). A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th June, 1772. A. C. Greene, printer to the state.
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