Joseph Bucklin 4th was the captain of the Brigantine Providence.

Read about the court case involving Joseph Bucklin 4th and his ship the Brigantine Providence.  

There were other ships named "Providence"- which were not brigantines. 

Sloop Providence. The ship John Paul Jones had, and which has its own place in history, that was named the Providence was originally named "Katy".   It was a merchant sloop, 110 feet long,  built in 1768.  It was owned by Providence merchant John Brown.   In 1774, the Newport merchants felt aggrieved by the actions of the English ship Rose in its actions against smuggling.  The Newport merchants fitted out the Katty as an armed vessel and used it to patrol the Narragansett Bay in opposition to the 20 gun HMS Rose.   

In 1775, as the first American ship of the Rhode Island navy, the Katty was put under the command of John Brown's ship captain Abraham Whipple.  

Then when purchased by the General Assembly of the colonies to be used for the new American Navy, and armed with 12 guns, it was renamed the Providence.  

There is a recreated sloop Providence available for rental and manned by a faithful society devoted to the history of the historic sloop.  See http://www.sloopprovidence.org/ 

Frigate Providence. There was a frigate Providence, built for war in 1776, by Sylvester Brown, of Providence, RI.  Carrying 28 guns, she was about 127 feet long and 34 feet wide.

Gondola Providence. The gondola Providence was a flat bottomed boat  62 feet long by 20 feet wide.  It was in essence a floating gun position for the 12 cannons mounted on it.  It was built for, and used in, and destroyed in, the 1776 battle for Lake Champlain in the Revolution.

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