A documentary about the role of the British ship Gaspee that was burned in Narragansett Bay by colonists in 1772 over a tax dispute will be shown Thursday night. If the Gaspee Days Committee, now in ...

When a group of marine archaeologists recently announced the first scientific search for the shipwreck of the HMS Gaspee, it raised two key questions: One: How much of the British revenue schooner ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Islanders feel slighted that Bostonians get all the glory for helping spark the American Revolution with the Boston Tea Party. After all, more than a year before any tea ...

If you think you had a bad week, consider how things went 250 years ago for William Dudingston: The Royal Navy lieutenant had one job: stop smuggling on Narragansett Bay. But, on June 9, 1772, the ...

One June night, 19-year-old Eph Bowen borrowed his father’s gun, grabbed some ammunition and headed for a local tavern. He met up with a group of others bent on taking revenge on a ship that had been ...