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Chapelle</a></div> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">History</th></tr> <tr><th height="30" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;text-align:left;padding-left:2px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_(1707%E2%80%931800).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/47px-Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="47" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/70px-Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/94px-Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span><span style="padding-left:1em"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a></span></th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td><i>Nova Scotia Packet</i></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Port of registry</td><td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax, NS</a>, September 1765</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Maiden voyage</td><td>Halifax to Boston, 15 October 1765</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Sold to <a href="/wiki/British_Admiralty" class="mw-redirect" title="British Admiralty">Admiralty</a> in October 1768</td></tr> <tr><th height="30" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;text-align:left;padding-left:2px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_(1707%E2%80%931800).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Royal Navy Ensign"><img alt="Royal Navy Ensign" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/51px-White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="51" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/76px-White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/101px-White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1008" data-file-height="560" /></a></span><span style="padding-left:1em"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a></span></th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td>HMS <i>Halifax</i></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Acquired</td><td>October 1768</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Wrecked on 15 February 1775</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Tons burthen</td><td>83 4/94 <a href="/wiki/Builder%27s_Old_Measurement" title="Builder's Old Measurement">bm</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">58 ft 3 in (17.8 m) (on deck)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">46 ft 10.5 in (14.3 m) (keel)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>18 ft 3 in (5.6 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Depth of hold</td><td>8 ft 10 in (2.69 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>Sail</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Sail plan</td><td>Square <a href="/wiki/Topsail_schooner" class="mw-redirect" title="Topsail schooner">Topsail schooner</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>30</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">6 × 3-pdrs</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">8 (later 12) × <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span>-pdr swivels<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>HMS <i>Halifax</i></b> was a <a href="/wiki/Schooner" title="Schooner">schooner</a> built for merchant service at <a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a>, in 1765 that the British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> purchased in 1768 for coastal patrol in North America in the years just prior to the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>. She is one of the best documented schooners from early North America. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Packet_ship">Packet ship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Halifax_(1768)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Packet ship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The schooner was built by a group of Halifax merchants with government support as the <i>Nova Scotia Packet</i>, to establish a reliable <a href="/wiki/Packet_trade" title="Packet trade">packet service</a> of mail and passengers between Halifax and <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> in 1765. The managing owner was, Joseph Grey, the son in law of the commissioner of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Naval_Dockyard,_Halifax" title="Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax">Halifax Naval Yard</a> where the schooner was likely built.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Launched in late September 1765, the schooner made her first voyage on 15 October 1765 under the command of Benjamin Green Jnr.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Weather permitting, the packet sailed every eight days between Halifax and Boston and made 23 round trips during her merchant career. In July 1768, the <i>Nova Scotia Packet</i> was chartered by Commodore <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hood,_1st_Viscount_Hood" title="Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood">Samuel Hood</a> in Halifax to take dispatches to <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. Hood also recommended that the schooner be purchased by the British Royal Navy.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="HMS_Halifax">HMS <i>Halifax</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Halifax_(1768)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: HMS Halifax"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Royal Navy purchased the schooner on 12 October 1768 and renamed her <i>Halifax</i>; she met a need for more coastal patrol schooners to combat smuggling and deal with colonial unrest in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>. The careful record of her lines and construction by Portsmouth dockyard naval architects, and the detailed record of her naval service, make the schooner a much-studied example of early schooners in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Halifax_(1768).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/HMS_Halifax_%281768%29.jpg/400px-HMS_Halifax_%281768%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/HMS_Halifax_%281768%29.jpg/600px-HMS_Halifax_%281768%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/HMS_Halifax_%281768%29.jpg/800px-HMS_Halifax_%281768%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="617" /></a><figcaption>Original Royal Navy plans of HMS <i>Halifax</i></figcaption></figure> <p>After being surveyed in September 1768 she was commissioned in October and fitted out at Portsmouth between October and December.<sup id="cite_ref-Winfield333_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winfield333-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her first commander was Lieutenant Samuel Scott, who sailed her back to North America in January 1769. In 1769 <i>Halifax</i> confiscated and towed the schooner <i>Liberty</i>, later <a href="/wiki/HMS_Liberty_(1768)" title="HMS Liberty (1768)">HMS <i>Liberty</i></a>, belonging to <a href="/wiki/John_Hancock" title="John Hancock">John Hancock</a>. <i>Halifax</i> returned to Britain for a refit in December 1770, and the following year was under the command of Lieutenant Abraham Crespin. Lieutenant Jacob Rogers took command in 1773, and was succeeded in 1774 by Lieutenant Joseph Nunn.<sup id="cite_ref-Winfield333_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winfield333-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 1774-January 1775 reported as leaky, in poor repair and unfit for service. Ordered anchored in port to be surveyed in the Spring.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Loss">Loss</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Halifax_(1768)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Loss"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After an active career on the coast on North America she was wrecked in a gale at 3 A.M. 15 February 1775 at Foster Island near <a href="/wiki/Machias,_Maine" title="Machias, Maine">Machias, Maine</a>. That night she went to pieces in a snowstorm.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was reportedly intentionally run aground by a local pilot.<sup id="cite_ref-Duncan_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duncan-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The court martial of Nunn, his officers, and crew, attributed the loss to the pilot's ignorance; nothing came of this as the pilot had disappeared while Nunn was arranging transport from Sheep's Island to Boston for his crew with a local shipowner, Mr. Beale.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The wreck played a role in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Machias" title="Battle of Machias">Battle of Machias</a> later that year, when Admiral <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Graves" title="Samuel Graves">Samuel Graves</a> ordered that her guns be recovered.<sup id="cite_ref-Duncan_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duncan-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A later schooner named <i>Halifax</i> serving in North America was recorded as being purchased in 1775, though her lines were identical to the <i>Halifax</i> sunk that year, and she may therefore have been salvaged and returned to service.<sup id="cite_ref-Winfield333_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winfield333-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Halifax_(1768)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H.M. Hahn, <i>The Colonial Schooner</i>, (Greenwich, 1981), p.64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Trevor Kenchington, "The Navy's First Halifax", <i>Argonauta</i>, Canadian Nautical Research Society, Vol. X, No. 2 (April 1993), p. 9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Halifax Gazette</i>, 17 October 1765</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Trevor Kenchington, "The Navy's First Halifax", <i>Argonauta</i>, Canadian Nautical Research Society, Vol. X, No. 2 (April 1993), p. 10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Howard Chapelle, <i>The Search for Speed Under Sail</i> (New York: Norton, 1935), p.33-35</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Winfield333-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Winfield333_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Winfield333_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Winfield333_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWinfield" class="citation book cs1">Winfield. <i>British Warships of the Age of Sail</i>. p. 333.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Warships+of+the+Age+of+Sail&rft.pages=333&rft.au=Winfield&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHMS+Halifax+%281768%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ibiblio.org/anrs/docs/E/E3/ndar_v01p01.pdf">"Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 1 AMERICAN THEATRE: Dec. 1, 1774–Sept. 2, 1775 EUROPEAN THEATRE: Dec. 6, 1774–Aug. 9, 1775"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. United States government Printing Office<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 December</span> 2021</span> – via American Naval Records Society.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Naval+Documents+of+The+American+Revolution+Volume+1+AMERICAN+THEATRE%3A+Dec.+1%2C+1774%E2%80%93Sept.+2%2C+1775+EUROPEAN+THEATRE%3A+Dec.+6%2C+1774%E2%80%93Aug.+9%2C+1775&rft.pub=United+States+government+Printing+Office&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fibiblio.org%2Fanrs%2Fdocs%2FE%2FE3%2Fndar_v01p01.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHMS+Halifax+%281768%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H.M. Hahn, <i>The Colonial Schooner</i>, (Greenwich, 1981), p. 63</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Duncan-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Duncan_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Duncan_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="Duncan" class="citation book cs1">Duncan, Roger F (1992). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/coastalmainemari00dunc/page/208"><i>Coastal Maine: A Maritime History</i></a></span>. New York: Norton. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/coastalmainemari00dunc/page/208">208</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03048-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03048-2"><bdi>0-393-03048-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Coastal+Maine%3A+A+Maritime+History&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=208&rft.pub=Norton&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0-393-03048-2&rft.aulast=Duncan&rft.aufirst=Roger+F&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcoastalmainemari00dunc%2Fpage%2F208&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHMS+Halifax+%281768%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ibiblio.org/anrs/docs/E/E3/ndar_v01p01.pdf">"Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 1 AMERICAN THEATRE: Dec. 1, 1774–Sept. 2, 1775 EUROPEAN THEATRE: Dec. 6, 1774–Aug. 9, 1775"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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