However, Hancock, the first of the two, caught up with Fox and an engagement started that lasted for about a half-hour before Boston was able to join the combat.

[2] Ultimately, Rainbow captured Hancock after a 39-hour chase,[2] but Boston escaped to the Sheepscot River on the Maine coast.

Collier's after-action letter made no mention of any casualties on either side, even though the vessels had exchanged some fire.

The other officers and some of the men were aboard Boston, and Captain John Manley of Hancock had put most into a fishing vessel and sent them to Newfoundland.

Fox, now under the command of Captain the Honourable Thomas Windsor, was off Brest when she sighted a ship and sloop.

Fox gave chase, but the weather made visibility poor and obscured Junon's approach.

[4] Fox ran aground in March 1779 on Pointe St Jacques on the Rhuys Peninsula and could not be refloated.