by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Edwards… (1823)
“ This officer, when a Lieutenant, commanded the Canada schooner, on the Newfoundland station, where she was wrecked in a tremendous gale of wind. The next mention we find of him is May 28, 1781; on which day, being on a cruize on the Banks of Newfoundland, in the Atalante sloop, of 14 guns and 125 men, in company with the Trepassey, of 14 guns and 80 men, he fell in with, and was attacked by the Alliance, American frigate, of 40 guns and 250 men. ”
