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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The French frigate La Nymphe, Capt. Grandchain, ran aground on the West Bank due to an unfamiliar pilot but was freed by jettisoning guns and stores, arriving in New York unharmed. Recently, it transported the Marquis de la Fayette from Boston to Virginia to visit General Washington at Mount Vernon.
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Monday last his Most Christian Majesty's frigate La Nymphe, Capt. Grandchain, unfortunately run aground on the West Bank: she had on board a coasting pilot, who was not sufficiently acquainted with the navigation of our Bay: but by throwing her guns overboard, and employing lighters in taking out the heavy stores, &c. she got off without sustaining any material injury, and came up last evening to the city.
This fine new frigate of 40 eighteen pounders, a few weeks since, conveyed from Boston to Virginia the Marquis de la Fayette, who is gone to visit his Excellency General Washington at Mount Vernon.
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New York
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Monday Last
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got off without sustaining any material injury
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his Most Christian Majesty's frigate La Nymphe, Capt. Grandchain, unfortunately run aground on the West Bank: she had on board a coasting pilot, who was not sufficiently acquainted with the navigation of our Bay: but by throwing her guns overboard, and employing lighters in taking out the heavy stores, &c. she got off without sustaining any material injury, and came up last evening to the city. This fine new frigate of 40 eighteen pounders, a few weeks since, conveyed from Boston to Virginia the Marquis de la Fayette, who is gone to visit his Excellency General Washington at Mount Vernon.