Sloop Providence, John Paul Jones, chasing a Halifax schooner on the Grand Banks
In 1776 John Paul Jones in PROVIDENCE sailed to Nova Scotia. On his return to Narragansett Bay he had taken 16 prizes, of which four brigantines, a sloop and a ship reached safe harbour. He also had destroyed a valuable increment of His Majesty’s fisheries, thereby further straining the resources of an already overextended British Navy in its efforts to control the coast of the northeastern American continent.
