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Agreable to your orders we sail'd from St Christophers on the first of August, and the same day were joined by the Cygnet and her Convoy from Grenada; which when they had all received Orders made our Number by my List to consist of 127 sail.
We gott under Weigh in the forenoon and bore up to join the Grenada fleet but brought too within sight of the Ships in Basse Terre Road; They were as usual...
Date: 31 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
September 1777
Friday 5th
Anagada S22Wt 578 Leagues
at 5 AM made the Signal for the Fleet to come under our Stern, at 7 the Druid came within Hail, & inform'd us she had rece'd considerable. damage, both in her Hull & Rigging, that the Master & eight Men were kill'd in the engagement, & that Captain Carteret was Mortally Wounded, others were also Wounded & some of them in...
Date: 5 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
September 1777
Saturday 6th
Anagada S33Wt 549 Leagues
at 5 AM 80 Sail of our Convoy in sight, & The Rebel Ships Bearg S½E 6 or 7 Miles, at Noon the Rebels bore SE, 8 or 9 Miles, 61 Sail of the Convoy in sight, as likewise His Majestys Sloops Druid & Weazle —
Fresh Breezes & Squally Wr lost sight of the Rebel Ships, at 7 PM 56 Sail of the Convoy in sight
Date: 6 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
September 1777
Sunday 7th
Anagada S33Wt 579 Leagues
at 5 AM 59 Sail of the Convoy in sight, at 7 AM fired 2 Guns & made the Signal for the Fleet to come under our Stern, ½ past fired 1 Gun & made the Signal for the Ships &ca Stern to make more Sail, at Noon the 2 Rebel Ships in sight Bearing SWt —
Moderate Breezes & fair Wr at 2 PM saw a strange Sail in the NWt Quarter, made...
Date: 7 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9