Declaration of George Sisson, published in the "Virginia Calendar of State Papers," Vol. II, pp. 83-84. Capt. Markham of the Tempest was taken prisoner; his parole was dated April 28, 1781. Lieut. William Harwar Parker, who set off from the Tempest in the same small boat with Markham, escaped by swimming ashore under fire of the enemy. Lieut. Steele of the same vessel was captured. Among prisoners returned to Virginia on January 7, 1783 on the Bermudan boat Dolphin were Lieut. John Crew, Peter Fiveash, sailing-master, and Laban Goffigan, pilot, all of the Scorpion. Published in the Virginia Historical Register and Literary Advertiser, July, 1849. The writer has been unable to find record of a single chaplain in the service of the Virginia Navy. The members of the Admiralty Court at this time were Benjamin Waller, Richard Carrington, and James Henry. >From the diary of Dr. Benjamin Moseley, a passenger on the "Lively" brig, of one hundred and thirty tons burthern, from Port Royal, Jamaica, to England via America. Included in the "Family Memoirs," by Sir Oswald Mosley, Baronet. Commodore Barron's "Journal of the Patriot," for parts of the years 1784, 1785, 1786, and 1787, are included in "Papers Concerning the State Navy, Vol. II," Virginia State Archives. The barges, both American and British, had oars to supplement sails as driving power, mounted sixteen-pound guns, and carried a complement of seventy-five men each. An achievement of the Boat Liberty was recounted by Commodore James Barron, of the United States Navy, in the Virginia Historical Register: