Struggle for Sea Power : A Naval History of American Independence (9781782397403)

by Willis, Sam

  12. A contemporary woodblock print of the Grand Union flag, the first ensign of the Continental Navy. It is notable for its similarity to the British East India Company flag.

  13. One of many images that depict the destruction of the Santo Domingo at the Moonlight Battle, 1780. Rodney’s flagship the Sandwich (90) dominates the foreground. The masts and spars of the Santo Domingo are shown cartwheeling into the sky behind her.

  14. The Baltick of Salem, the best likeness we have of Washington’s first armed ship, the Hannah.

  15. Hunter House, on present-day Washington Street in Newport, the shore-based headquarters of the French fleet from August or September 1780 until August 1781. The house belonged to Colonel Joseph Wanton Jnr who abandoned it because of his loyalist sympathies. It is now open to the public.

  16. One of several coins produced to commemorate Rodney’s sack of St Eustatius and the ‘punishment’ of the Dutch in 1781.