The Service on which you have been employ'd being at an end; You are hereby required & directed to strike your Flag & come on shore. Given &c.
the 22d Feby 1776
To Samuel Graves Esq. Sandwich
Vice Adml of the Red &c.&c. at Plymouth C Spencer
By &c G J. ns. H. Palliser
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/100, 435. Thus ended the active service of Samuel Graves. He was promoted to Admiral of the Blue in 1778, and became Admiral of the White in 1782. Admiral Graves died on March 8, 1787 in his seventy-fourth year.
