The fleet was believed to have flown the Revolutionary "Pine Tree Flag"  with the less common motto "An Appeal to God" signifying the crews' loyalty to their New England woodlands and their religion. On one of the schooner's first voyages, it encountered the sloop Unity which was owned by John Langdon, a member of the Continental Congress from New Hampshire, but had been taken by the British Royal Navy.
A naval force was believed to have flown the Revolutionary "Pine Tree Flag"  with the less common motto "An Appeal to God", indicating their allegiance to New England's woods and their spiritual values. During one of its early voyages, the schooner came across the sloop Unity, owned by John Langdon, a member of the Continental Congress from New Hampshire, but it was captured by the British Royal Navy.