[2][a] Lieutenant Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, of Nonsuch, was appointed to command the Pigot galley.
Pigot supported one division, which went up Warren Creek, where they succeeded in surprising and capturing an armed galley.
[4] Five days later, 100 men of the 54th Regiment of Foot embarked on boats to attack saw mills at Fall River, Massachusetts.
[6] French Admiral d'Estaing's squadron arrived in Narragansett Bay on 29 July 1778 to support the American army under General George Washington during the battle of Rhode Island.
On 5 August 1778, Pigot lay anchored off Arnold's Point; Stanhope ran her ashore and set fire to her.
Apparently the Royal Navy registered her by Admiralty Order dated 22 December 1778,[9] that is, some two months after the Americans had captured her.
At some point, the British removed the upper deck of the brig they had bought and converted her to a galley of 200 tons (bm).
Hawk belonged to the Providence River squadron that the Continental Army organized after the failure of the attack on Rhode Island.
[11] She was a small vessel, 70 tons (bm), armed with only two guns, both 3-pounders, and Talbot gathered 60 volunteers to man her.
[11] On 14 November the Continental Congress passed a resolution recognizing Talbot's feat in capturing Pigot, and promoted him to lieutenant colonel.
Governor Greene of Rhode Island, but then at Philadelphia, instructed William Ellery to have Clarke sail Pigot to Providence and that she be sold there as she was too rotten and too dull a sailer to warrant retaining in service, and it would be too expensive to refit her.
[17] The court-martial of Dunlop, his officers, and men resulted in the master, John Lanadale, being dismissed the service and imprisoned in the Marshalsea for one year for being in his hammock when he was supposed to have been on watch on deck.