[1] An American sailor, Ned Myers, later recounted: [4] “we made such a show of schooners, that though [the Royal George] had herself a vessel or two in company, she did not choose to wait for us.” Chauncey followed Earle into the bay but lost sight on her as darkness fell.

Slowed by the captured schooner, Chauncey ordered her burned, and Lt. Joseph Macpherson set fire to the vessel between Ernestown and Collins Bay.

A brass 6-pdr artillery piece, manned on Everett Point by Addington Militia, five miles west of Kingston, was next to try and inflict some damage on the lead schooner USS Conquest, under the command of Lieutenant Jesse Elliot.

[6] As Chauncey’s fleet passed Everett Point and bore down on the Royal George’s position in the harbour, Commodore Earle weighed anchor and pulled back in line with the shore batteries, closer to the Cataraqui river.

Earle, fearful of an American boarding, ordered reinforcements from the town, and two boatloads of militia and soldiers were dispatched to the Royal George to act as marines.

Chauncey later reported: we did her much injury: that 4 Shot passed through her between wind and water, and that when she slipped and hauled on shore she was in a sinking condition, with both pumps going, 3 of her guns dismounted, her fore and main rigging cut away….and the ship very much injured in other respects.

Private John Sammon of the Newfoundland Fencibles, serving as a marine on the Royal George, was killed outright during the firefight, and several on both sides were injured.

[6] During the fight, the iron 32-pdr gun of the USS Pert exploded, badly wounding the vessel’s commander, Sailing Master Arundel, and slightly injuring four others.

[6] Around 4pm an American officer noted: “The squadron is now exposed to the cross fire of five batteries, of flying artillery, of the ship with springs on her cables so as to enable her to bring her guns to bear … Showers of round and grape fell around us.” Myers noted of the battery fire:[4] “one shot came in not far from my gun, and scattered lots of cat-tails, breaking in the hammock-cloths.” During the battle, one of Chauncey’s ships had captured the Canadian schooner Mary Hatt, and taken her as a prize.

Chauncey’s squadron chased the schooner, but Richardson out maneuvered the Americans until he took a shot to the hull and was forced to beach the ship west of Kingston.

[1] A detachment of British artillery and Addington Militia gathered on the shore and fired at the pursuing American ships, driving them back into Lake Ontario.

Three days of heavy snow made roads to Chauncey’s naval base at Sackets Harbor almost impassable, and all action along the front ceased for the winter.