[2] After a severe combat the two ships separated, both disabled; the Iris returned to New York, and the Hermione made the best of her way to Boston.

[2] La Touche was greatly mortified, as his frigate was by far the more powerful, and he had previously boasted that he would clear the coast of British cruisers.

[2] This was published in the New York Gazette,[3] and created a very unfavourable impression of La Touche's conduct, to which Nelson angrily referred during the time of his Toulon command.

[4] It is said that during the action a chain-shot did a good deal of damage to the Hermione, on which La Touche remarked, "Voilà une liaison bien dangereuse!"

[2] On 1 August Hawker was moved into the Renown, which he took to England, and on 10 November was appointed to the Hero, one of the squadron with Commodore George Johnstone in Porto Praya on 16 April 1781.