The past and the present . men from Providence in boatscaptured and destroyed His Majestysschooner Gaspee, of eight guns, com-manded by Lieutenant Duddingston, whowas shot, but not fatally. Rhode Islandordered the building of two war vessels,which became the first of an Americannavy. Congress, at the suggestion of RhodeIsland, organized a Continental navy, andtwo frigates, the Warren, of thirty-twoguns, and the Providence, of twenty-eightguns, were built in Providence and launchedin May, 1776. But any history of this beautiful andpicturesque bay would be in no small parttlie history of the Sta
The past and the present . men from Providence in boatscaptured and destroyed His Majestysschooner Gaspee, of eight guns, com-manded by Lieutenant Duddingston, whowas shot, but not fatally. Rhode Islandordered the building of two war vessels,which became the first of an Americannavy. Congress, at the suggestion of RhodeIsland, organized a Continental navy, andtwo frigates, the Warren, of thirty-twoguns, and the Providence, of twenty-eightguns, were built in Providence and launchedin May, 1776. But any history of this beautiful andpicturesque bay would be in no small parttlie history of the State that now proudlyholds it in her arms. As to-day its livelyfleet of sails and enterprising lines ofsteamers — palaces of art —ply to and froupon its blue sparkling waters as shuttlesthrough some fairy loom, how great thecontrast with the time when Roger Williams,at the age of seventy-three, pulled his rudecanoe alone from Providence to Newport,to debate question of theology and statewith George Foxs II.
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