Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Gaspee (or Gaspe):
Gaspee (1763) was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspee Affair in Narragansett Bay.[1]
HMS Gaspée was a schooner or brig purchased in North America, and captured on 23 November 1775. Her captors scuttled her but the Royal Navy retrieved her in May 1776. She served again in 1777 but her subsequent fate is unknown.
The Gaspee affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMSGaspee was a Royal Navy customs schooner that enforced the Navigation...
the name Gaspee (or Gaspe): Gaspee (1763) was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspee Affair in Narragansett Bay. HMSGaspée was a schooner...
burning the hated British revenue schooner HMSGaspée. This was America's "First Blow for Freedom", known as the Gaspee Affair, and led directly to the establishment...
Historic Places in 1972. Gaspee Point was the site of one of the first acts in the American Revolution when the Royal Navy's HMSGaspee was grounded there by...
a band of Providence residents attacked the grounded revenue schooner HMSGaspée, burning it to the waterline for enforcing unpopular trade regulations...
midshipman from 1755 to 1759. In September 1768 he was given command of HMSGaspee. In March 1772 the ship was ordered to go to Rhode Island to patrol the...
historiography of the Gaspee affair examines the changing views of historians and scholars with regard to the burning of HMSGaspee, a British customs schooner...
to confirm those aspects of his story. Allen was first placed aboard HMSGaspée, a brig anchored at Montreal. He was kept in solitary confinement and...
Dudingston, Rear Admiral, Royal Navy. Dudingston was commander of the schooner HMSGaspee, which after interfering with smugglers in the Colony of Rhode Island...
demonstrators in Rhode Island destroyed the Royal Navy customs schooner Gaspee. On December 16, 1773, in the Boston Tea Party, activists dressed themselves...
Declaration of Independence. Rhode Islanders had attacked the British warship HMSGaspee in 1772 as one of the first acts of war leading to the American Revolution...
Pennsylvania 1770 Boston Massacre 1772 Burning of the customs schooner HMSGaspee in Narragansett Bay 1773 - 1774 Lord Dunmore's War 1775 - 1783 American...
1775. On June 9, 1772, Rhode Island residents banded together and burned HMSGaspee in response to that ship's harassment of merchant shipping—and smuggling—in...
led by Abraham Whipple, attack and burn the British customs schooner HMSGaspee off of Rhode Island. June 10 – The crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following...
the planning of the 1772 burning of the HMSGaspee in Narragansett Bay, which later became known as the Gaspee affair. Occurring three years before the...
offence was not triable at quarter sessions. After the June 1772 burning of HMSGaspee in Warwick, Rhode Island, the Earl of Hillsborough as Secretary of State...
1921 A G-class submarine that was sunk as a target in Narragansett Bay. HMSGaspée Royal Navy 9 June 1772 British customs ship burned and sunk by American...
Whipple's command, the militia seized and burned the British schooner HMSGaspée in Narragansett Bay. On April 22, 1775, following the Battles of Lexington...
Captain James Wallace of HMS Rose. Wallace wrote, "You Abraham Whipple on June 10, 1772, burned his majesty's vessel the Gaspee and I will hang you at the...
led by Abraham Whipple, attack and burn the British customs schooner HMSGaspee off of Rhode Island. June 10 – The crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following...
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