Little Hawk-

Well, we do agree on Capt. John Paul Jones. And I suppose I should point out that he was trained in the Royal Navy.

Unfortunately, most of the American frigate captains were not up to his caliber and their first wave of new ships were picked off one by one, and their history buried from our eyes. Those frigates included the Randolf, the Virginia, the Raleigh, the Hancock, the Warren, the Washington, the Boston, the Providence, the Thrumball, the Montgomery, the Effingham, the Congress and the Deleware. Later there were three other frigates the Confederacy, captured off the Virginia Capes in 1781, the Alliance which survived to the end of the war uncaptured, and the Bourbon which was not launched until the war ended.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble