[February 2 ー February 20, 1776]
The Wind being nowfavourable and fresh the Vice Admiral got out to Sea, and pushed for the English Channel with all the Sail he could carry, and losing sight of the Canceawx and Trident in the first Week of the Passage, made the Edystone the 18th, and, got into Plymouth Sound; without any Accident, the 20th in the Afternoon, before the Somerset from Halifax, who had sailed from thence the 15th of the last month & was much shattered in the Voyage;by the Violence of the weather.
1. The Conduct of Vice Admiral Samuel Graves in North America in 1774, 1775 and January 1776, British Museum, Mss. 14038 and 14039, II, 42. Hereafter cited as Graves's Conduct, BM.
