At Anchor in five fathm Hole
AM Light Airs and Rain till 9, then fair at ½ past 10 Do the Comodore fired a Gun loos'd His Fore Sails and Made a Weft of his Ensign being the Private Signal to Weigh ½ pt 11 Anchor'd in ¼ less 4 fathm Abreast of the Fortification On Sullivans Island and within ½ Gun Shot of their Batterys The Rebels immediately began a brisk fire On us With Thirty Six Pounders. The Solebay Rowed Guard.
Modte & fair at Noon the Bristol Comodr Sir Peter Parker Anchd. about Our Length a Head of us and the Experiment about as far a Head of Him both which Cover'd the Curtain and the Solebay a head of him Who Cover'd the West Bastion we Cover'd the face of the Et Bastion & began a brisk fire wch Continued with great Warmth till 9 in the Evening When the Bristol Experiment & Solebay, Cut & Sliped & Went Off from the Batterys without Random Gun Shott, at 10 we Sliped the Small Br end for end and Cut the Best Br in the Splice, lost Two Bowers & two Do Anchors, but in Casting Unfortunately got a Ground,

at 2 She fluted hove her off and Run her down And Anchd by the Bristol in 7 fm f[ro]m 11 PM till 2 AM we was greatly within point blank of their Batterys the Actaeon & Syren struck on the Middle Ground, the Syren gott off, but the Actaeon bilg'd and Burned. Lost Shott and Hove Overboard [in] the above Engagement Boatwains Stores of Different [de]nominations as appears by Expence Book, Gunners Stores of Different Denominations part which was Sunk the Longboat, Missing, and Shott away at the Same Time as appears by Expence Book, Carpenters Stores [of] Various Sorts Broke Shott away Cut and Lost As [ap]pears by Expence Book, Our people employed as [m]uch as they Could in righting the Ship after the [a]bove Engagement.
Light Airs & Calms, Very hot and Sultry, All the Squadron as well as Ourselves Very Assiduously Employ'd [r]epairing the Damages received engageing the Batterys On Sullivans Isle which Shattered us all very Much being no less than 32 pounders.