April 1776 At a single Anchor off Rhode Island
Sunday 7 at 5 AM the Rebels open'd a battery on Brentons Point & finding that every shot struck the Ship Cut the best br Cable & made sail up Cananicutt Passage at 8 Came too off Hopes Isld at noon weigh'd & came to Sail in Compy the Tender &-2 Sloops down the N araganset Passage ー Modt & hazey at 4 Point Judith W b N & Block Island SW½ S 6Lgs
Monday 8 at 8 AM join'd Compy with the Rose & Squadron at 11 bore away Fresh breezes & hazey working to windward under Block Island. at 6 PM Block Island N E 2 Leags at 8 Close Reef'd the topsls '2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/398.
2. Ibid., the Glasgow, in company with the Rose, Swan, transports, and tenders were en route to Halifax, where they arrived the afternoon of April 18. On the afternoon of May 13 the Glasgow sailed for England.
