[4] During the occupation of the British off the coast of Cape Cod, a naval ship by the name of HMS Newscastle ran aground in the Billingsgate Shoal of Wellfleet on December 12, 1814.
Finding the sloop Camel that had evaded the British blockade, full of provisions for the militia.
On December 19 the British returned to Orleans and set fire to two boats in Rock Harbor which were extinguished by citizens.
A schooner in the harbor, the Betsey, was captured by the British and an American prisoner charged with piloting it to Provincetown.
The Historical Marker Database, Commemorating the Battle of Rock Harbor, retrieved April 22, 2022 Swift, Charles Francis, Cape Cod, the Right Arm of Massachusetts, An Historical Narrative, Registered Publishing Company, p. 249, Retrieved April 21, 2022 Snow, Bonnie (Feb 7, 2014) Cape Cod Times, A history of military attacks on Cape Cod, Retrieved April 22, 2022