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| British Leeward Island's Squadron, John MooreBritish Naval Sailor Service 1738-1778 | |||
| Ship Name | Commander | Notes | |
| Name : Cambridge (80)
1755-1808 British 80 Gun 3rd Rate Ship of the Line | Thomas BurnettBritish Naval Sailor Service 1736-1782 | Fleet Flagship | |
| Name : Saint George (90)
1740-1774 British 90 Gun 2nd Rate Ship of the Line | Clark GaytonBritish Naval Sailor Service 1723-1782 | ||
| Name : Norfolk (74)
1757-1774 British 74 Gun 3rd Rate Ship of the Line | Robert HughesBritish Naval Sailor Service 1738-1770 | ||
| Name : Berwick (64)
1743-1760 British 64 Gun 3rd Rate Ship of the Line | William HarmanBritish Naval Sailor Service 1733-1763 | ||
| Name : Buckingham (68)
1751-1779 British 68 Gun 3rd Rate Ship of the Line 1777 Renamed "Grampus" | Richard TyrrellBritish Naval Sailor Service 1740-1760 | ||
| Name : Burford (68)
1757-1785 British 68 Gun 3rd Rate Ship of the Line | James GambierBritish Naval Sailor Service 1743-1800 | ||
| Name : Lion (58)
1738-1765 British 58 Gun 4th Rate Ship of the Line | Sir William TrelawnyBritish Naval Sailor Service 1743-1767 | ||
| Name : Rippon (60)
1758-1808 British 60 Gun 4th Rate Ship of the Line | Edward JekyllBritish Naval Sailor Service 1742-1774 | ||
| Name : Panther (60)
1758-1813 British 60 Gun 4th Rate Ship of the Line | Molyneaux ShuldhamBritish Naval Sailor Service 1732-1793 | ||
| Name : Winchester (50)
1744-1769 British 50 Gun 4th Rate Ship of the Line | Sir Edward Le CrasBritish Naval Sailor Service 1733-1778 | ||
| Name : Bristol (50)
1746-1768 British 50 Gun 4th Rate Ship of the Line | Lachlan LeslieBritish Naval Sailor Service 1733-1761 | ||
| Name : Woolwich (44)
1749-1762 British 44 Gun 5th Rate Ship of the Line | Peter ParkerBritish Naval Sailor Service 1743-1799 | ||
| Name : Roebuck (44)
1743-1764 British 44 Gun 5th Rate Ship of the Line | Thomas LynnBritish Naval Sailor Service 1747-1780 | ||
| Name : Ludlow Castle (44)
1744-1771 British 44 Gun 5th Rate Ship | Edward ClarkeBritish Naval Sailor Service 1726-1778 | ||
| Name : Renown (30)
1747-1771 British 30 Gun 6th Rate Frigate 1748 Renamed "Renown" | George MackenzieBritish Naval Sailor Service 1740-1779 | ||
| Name : Amazon (22)
1745-1763 British 22 Gun 6th Rate Frigate | William NortonBritish Naval Sailor Service 1742-1779 | ||
| Name : Rye (20)
1746-1763 British 20 Gun 6th Rate Ship | Daniel DeringBritish Naval Sailor Service 1749-1759 | ||
| Name : Weazle (16)
1745-1779 British 16 Gun Unrated Sloop | John BolesBritish Naval Sailor Service 1745-1760 | ||
| Name : Antigua (14)
1757-1763 British 14 Gun Unrated Sloop | Weston VarloBritish Naval Sailor Service 1743-1787 | ||
| Name : Bonetta (10)
1756-1776 British 10 Gun Unrated Sloop | Richard KingBritish Naval Sailor Service 1738-1805 | ||
| Name : Spy (10)
1756-1773 British 10 Gun Unrated Sloop | William BayneBritish Naval Sailor Service 1749-1782 | ||
| Name : Kingfisher (14)
1745-1763 British 14 Gun Unrated Sloop | Sabine DeaconBritish Naval Sailor Service 1736-1749 | ||
| Name : Falcon (8)
1745-1759 British 8 Gun Unrated Bomb Vessel | Mark RobinsonBritish Naval Sailor Service 1740-1787 | ||
| Name : Granado (8)
1742-1763 British 8 Gun Unrated Bomb Vessel | Samuel UvedaleBritish Naval Sailor Service 1740-1790 | ||
| Name : Infernal (14)
1757-1774 British 14 Gun Unrated Bomb Vessel | James MackenzieBritish Naval Sailor Service 1734-1763 | ||
The British force on the Leeward Islands' station, under Commodore John Moore, was strengthened by eight ships of the lino under Captain Robert Hughes, and by troops under Major-General Hopson, in order that the force might reduce some of the French Caribbean Islands, which were supposed to be weakly garrisoned. The troops left England in November, 1758, under convoy of Captain Hughes, and reached Carlisle Bay, Barbados, in January, 1759. There Commodore Moore was met with. On the 13th of that month the whole force sailed for Martinique, and on the afternoon of the 15th entered Fort Royal Bay. On the morning of the 16th the Bristol, 50, Captain Leslie, and the Ripon, 60, Captain Jekyll, silenced and occupied a, fort on Negro Point. The Winchester, 50, Captain Le Cras, Woolwich, 44, Captain Peter Parke, and Roebuck, 44, Captain Thomas Lynn, cannonaded the batteries in the Bay of Cas des Navires, where it was intended to disembark troops.
A landing was effected at about 4 P.M. under Captains Molyneux Shuldham, James Gambier, and Thomas Burnett; and, by the following morning, nearly the whole army was ashore. But against 4400 British, available for the service, there were at least 10,000 French, including their militia; and, after some small operations had been attempted, General Hopson, despairing of success, withdrew his troops to the transports.
The expedition then proceeded to St. Pierre, the capital of the island. But, on his arrival off that place on the 19th, the Commodore did nothing except send in the Ripon, 60, Captain Jekyll, to attack some batteries, the reduction of which would not in the least have influenced the general fate of the island. Jekyll was quite unsupported; and, having fought from '1 till 4.30 P.M. with great gallantry and silenced one battery, he was obliged to cut his cable and tow off. The position of the Ripon was for some time not unlike that of the Formidable under Captain de St. lion at the attack on Lissa in 1866. She narrowly escaped grounding, and could not entirely get clear till 6 P.M. Jekyll behaved magnificently. It was then decided to abandon the attempt on Martinique, and to attack Guadeloupe