Sepr 1775 Tuesday 5th Rem[ark]s on Bo His Majts Ship Mercury [off Norfolk]
A M got all the Spair Sails & Banding Do into a Schooner, Empd Breaking up the ground Teer and Starting the water and Sending the Casks on Shore and getting the Iron Ballast out of the Fish Room Forward Little wind and fair W[eathe]r P M Empd Triming the Shingle Ballast forward got the End of the Otters Cable on bd and began heaving to try to heave the Ship off but Could Not
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1866.
