“the Harmonie was commanded by Citizen Noyer, had eight carriage guns, and sixty-six men at the attack, forty-four only of whom were found at the time of surrender. The boats and privateer repassed the fort on the larboard side of the harbour within musket-shot, but happily escaped from a heavy fire unhurt.
“The spirited manner in which Captain Ferris led the boats to the attack, and the gallant conduct of Lieutenants Cole and Furber, the petty officers and men, on the occasion, merit my warmest praise; nor can I do too much justice to the conduct of Lieutenant Beatty, commanding the detachment of royal marines. Lieutenant Boyd, the non-commissioned officers and privates, who in the most soldier-like manner, after being challenged and fired upon by two sentinels, and perfectly ignorant of the nature and number of the troops they had to contend with, pushed directly into the fort with fixed bayonets, when the enemy cried for quarter. By the silence with which the battery was carried, one hundred militia of the fort of St. Ann were cut off from the point of rendezvous, and thus the place, to answer all our purposes, secured without the loss of a man. I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed)“Thomas Graves.”
On the 5th March, 1804, Captain William Ferris, then commanding the Blenheim, addressed Commodore Hood as follows:–
- ↑ One seaman and two marines killed; Lieutenants Furber and Mayne, Mr. Hill, midshipman, and sixteen other persons, wounded; three seamen missing.