According to Dean DeBolt:
>
> Because of the existence of a number of printed forms used in Pensacola during
> the British period (1765-1781), and because these forms are "sloppy" in
> printing and quite local in text, we have hypothesized the existence of a
> press aboard a H.M.S. ship that could have delivered some local printing for
> Pensacola/West Florida in this period.   I do not know if this is the same
> "realm" as "portable presses" but I recall reading somewhere about that some
> of Her Majesty's ships (the larger ones) carried a press.
>
>
> Dean DeBolt, University of West Florida
>
That was not uncommon among British and French vessel.  I
believe there are references to entire issues of newspapers put
out by a French printing press during Admiral DeGrasse's stay
in Newport, R.I. during 1780/81.
 
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