PROVIDENCE, July 18.
Capt. George Allen, who lately sailed from this Port in a small Privateer,1 has taken a Vessel laden with Coal, and carried her into New-London.2
1. Rhode Island privateer sloop Industrious Bee, George Allin, commander, 20 tons burthen, mounting 8 swivel guns, manned by 20 men, owned by Samuel Brown and Nathaniel Gyles of Providence, commissioned on 26 June. R-Ar, Maritime Papers, Letters of Marque and Reprisal (1776–1780), Petitions and Instructions, p. 77.
2. The prize was the sloop Success, John Fish, master, which was libeled on 17 July in the Connecticut Maritime Court for New London County. It was captured by Industrious Bee and the Connecticut privateer armed boat Revenge, Elijah Champlin Jr., commander. Connecticut Gazette; and the Universal Intelligencer, 17 July 1778.
