June 1776 Saturday 1st
Cape Sambro No 47 E' 28 Leagues at 12 [midnight] the Light House NNE to E 3 miles at 2 chebucto head NW ½ a mile at 6 anchord with the best bour in 10 fm water abrest of the dock yard Halifax found here Vice Adml Shuldham with a Number of Men of war and Transports Saluted the Admiral with 15 Guns At Noon fresh breezes with drizling rain. Fresh winds and Cloudy, first part some rain hauld alongside the heaving down wharf,
Sunday 2d
AM Empd putting ashore 16-6 Pounders and 16 Swivels for the Albany Sloop. ー 2 Fresh gales and Cloudy with rain,
Monday 3
Latter part fair Empd Var[iousl]y. ー Fresh winds with misty Wr and rain
Tuesday 4
At 9 AM Lieut Jno Schanks, Came on board and took Command,3 Saluted with 13 Guns, Adml returned Do
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1637 and 52/1638.
2. Ibid., the 16 guns had been stowed in the hold of the Canceaux at Portsmouth on April 10, 1776.
3. Henry Mowat left the Canceaux to take command of the Albany, a prize merchant ship of 230 tons, which Vice Admiral Shuldhani had purchased for the king's service. As she had to be altered to carry the guns brought from England, Mowat had "accepted of her in the mean time, but in the fullt Expectation of never going to Sea in her..." Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society (Portland, 1891), 2nd series, II 357-58.
