Revised Aug 29 2021
1 pm: Fresh breezes and cloudy weather. At 1 PM brought up in Girdlers Hole in 10 fathoms water. Beacon off the [?] sand NW. Buoy of Ditto N¼E. Girdlers Buoy SSW½W Handed sails, up Top Gallant yards weighed and made sail under single reef Top Sails. set Top Gallant Sails &c.
6 pm: Abreast of Pan sand Beacon; out all reefs
8 pm: Light breezes and cloudy weather.
9 pm: North Foreland SbE 7 miles, and Margate SbW Came to with the small Bower in 8 fathoms. North Foreland SbW 5 or 6 miles
12 mid: Moderate and cloudy
4 am: Weighed and made sail
7 am: Handed the Mainsail
8 am: Hove too off Deal – out Pinnace and the Captain went on board the Commodore. Found lying here HM Ships Ardent, Pomona and a Sloop of War
11 am: In Pinnace
12 noon: Moderate breezes and cloudy
Assistant in Company
[* Both this and the next page are dated Thursday the 14th, however, by
its position this one should be Wednesday the 13th.]