Monday 26th May [1777] 42:55N Latd 67 . . 15W Longd
this 24 hours brings Strong gales of wind and rainy disagreeable weather, made a Snugg Ship & carried Short Sail According to the weather, had sight of Most of the fleet untill towards Night ー house'd all the guns and wallow'd in water all night the gundeck Leak'd so that the most of the people were wet below as well as the officers. 2
1. McNeill's Journal, MM.
2. Benjamin Crowninshield wrote in his journal: "Parted with all the fleet but one and that is the Commodore," Crowninshield's Journal, MassHS.
