Give Me a Fast Ship The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea by Tim McGrath

Author:Tim McGrath [McGrath, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-06-11T21:00:00+00:00

Other officers emerged from the investigations sullied but not bowed, including Lovell and Revere. The entire blame fell on Saltonstall. One Boston paper called him “A new fangled Commodore,” adding that he had lost nothing “except the whole fleet.” Saltonstall’s court-martial was held upon the Deane, and he was summarily dismissed from the navy. The debacle cost Massachusetts seven million dollars, threatening to bankrupt the state and beginning a drawn- out argument over whether Congress should defray the enormous cost.98

Having led American forces into the worst defeat of the war, Saltonstall, the original captain of the Alfred, was finished. That very September, across the Atlantic, his former first lieutenant was about to fight the battle that would define the Continental Navy for centuries.

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