The Renown and Phoenix, each of 40 guns, are commissioned at this port, and the Rainbow at Sheerness; they are ordered to America to relieve the Boyne, Somerset and Asia, of 64 guns each; these being found to be too large for that country, and that 40 gun Ships will answer the purpose better
1. Reprinted in Connecticut Gazette, Sept. 29, 1775, from the London Chronicle, July 11-13, 1775.
