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HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy revenue schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772. [1] It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 off Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline. [2]
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.
Lieutenant Hunter took command of HMS Royal Savage. [4] On 3 November, the British were forced to surrender St Johns to advancing American forces. A bombardment sunk Royal Savage; [4] Hunter and 14 of his men were among the prisoners of war. [3] In September 1773, Gaspee carried the captured American leader Ethan Allen from Montreal to Quebec.
WARWICK – More than 250 years ago, Rhode Island colonists had a grudge against the HMS Gaspee and the Royal Navy ship's captain. They settled that grudge by burning his ship to the waterline.
More than 700 Rhode Island drivers have ordered the charity plates, which depict the burning of British revenue ship HMS Gaspee. RI Gaspee license plate distribution set for Oct. 14. What to know.
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Gaspee Point was the site of one of the first acts in the American Revolution when the Royal Navy's HMS Gaspee was grounded there by American patriots on June 9, 1772 in what became known as the Gaspée affair. The Gaspee was a revenue schooner locally detested for its enforcement of the unpopular Navigation Acts.
The historiography of the Gaspee affair examines the changing views of historians and scholars with regard to the burning of HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner that ran aground while patrolling coastal waters near Newport, Rhode Island and was boarded and destroyed by colonists during the lead up to the American Revolution in 1772.