[August 1778] Friday 14.
Block Island N47E. 59 Leagues At 10 AM Suddenly shoald our water from 14 to 4 ½ & 3 fm. Haul’d up to the No.ward & soon after saw the land from NW to NbE. Saw 3 strange Sail in the NE Quarter.
Block Island N43E dist. 54 leagues Mostly fresh Gales & cloudy. at 4 PM Spoke His Majs Ship’s Sphynx1 & Carcass bomb.2 At 8 left them out of sight with the Schooner Zemire.3
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/675, fol. 59.
1. H.M. frigate Sphynx, Capt. Alexander Graeme.
2. H.M. bomb Carcass, Lt. Edward Edwards.
3. The French schooner Zemire, Master J. B. Gaspar. See Journal of H.M. frigate Pearl, 13 Aug., above, for details of its capture.