The people’s names in the cutter are as follow, viz.

Names.  Quality.  Age.  Where born.

Thomas Harvey, purser, 23 Westminster. 
John Mooring, boatswain’s mate, 34 Gosport. 
William Oram, carpenter’s crew, 28 Philadelphia. 
Richard Phipps, boatswain’s mate, 30 Bristol. 
Matthew Lively, gunner’s mate, 34 Exeter. 
John George, seaman, 22 Wandsworth. 
Nicholas Griselham, ditto, 31 Ipswich. 
James Stewart, ditto, 35 Aberdeen. 
James Roach, ditto, 21 Cork. 
James Butler, ditto, 32 Dublin. 
John Allen, ditto, 18 Gosport.

Wednesday the 4th, hard gales at W.N.W., and a great sea without; served out flour and a piece of beef to two men for a week’s subsistence; the weather is so bad that there is no other food to be got.

Thursday the 5th, little wind at S.W., with heavy rains; at six this morning went under sail, but could make no hand of it, therefore were obliged to put back again:  As soon as we came to an anchor, the boatswain employed himself in making a raft to get ashore with; this raft was made with oars and water barrels; when it was made, and over the side, it would carry three men, but it was no sooner put off from the vessel’s side but it canted, and obliged the people to swim for their lives; the boatswain got hold of the raft, and with some difficulty reach’d the shore; when he came off in the evening, he informed us he had seen a beef puncheon, which gave us some reason to apprehend some other ship of the squadron had suffered our fate.

Friday the 6th, this morning went under sail, the wind at W.N.W., with fresh gales and heavy rain, the wind came to the westward, and a great sea, so that we could not turn out over the bar:  In our putting back we saw the cutter, a very agreeable sight, which gave us new life; in the evening anchored at the place sailed from, the carpenter and others went ashore to get shell-fish, which we stood in great need of; at night the proper boat’s crew would not go ashore with the boat as usual, but made her fast a-stern of the vessel, with only two men in her, she never being left without four before; at eleven at night one of the men came out of her into the vessel, it blowing very hard at N.N.E., in half an hour shifted to N.W., and rainy weather, that we could not see a boat’s length:  At two the next morning the cutter broke loose from the stern of the vessel; we called from on board to James Stewart, the man that was in her, but he could not hear us:  In a short time we lost sight of her, believing she must be stove among the rocks.  The loss of the cutter gives the few thinking people aboard a great deal of uneasiness; we have seventy-two men in the vessel, and not above six of that number that gives themselves