August
Saturday 1st.
At Single Anchor Sandy Hook Light House E½So. Distance 1½ Mile Modt. and Cloudy Weatr. PM an Officer and 20 Men of the 23d Regiment came on board as Volunteers.1 at 6 PM the Admiral made the Signal to prepare to Sail.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/694.
1. Also known as the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the 23rd Regiment volunteered to serve as marines throughout the fleet because their honorary regimental colonel was Sir William Howe. See also: "Journal of Captain Henry Duncan, R.N.," p. 161; and entries for Aug. 2 in the journals of H.M.S. Centurion, UkLPR, Adm. 51/181; H.M.S. Experiment, Adm. 51/331; and H.M.S. Preston, Adm. 51/694.
