The action of 15 June 1745 (also known as the Battle of Famme Goose Bay[9]) was a naval encounter between three New England vessels and a French and native relief convoy en route to relieve the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during King George's War.

The Governor of Ile Royal Louis Du Pont Duchambon thought that the New Englanders would have ended their siege of Louisbourg had Marin arrived.

[11] At the outbreak of the war, in May 1744, Captain David Donahue of the Resolution took prisoner the chief of the Mi'kmaq people of Ile Royale Jacques Pandanuques with his family to Boston.

[12][13] In May 1745, Paul Marin de la Malgue led 200 troops and hundreds of Mi'kmaq joined a siege against Annapolis Royal.

While at Cobequid, Pote reported that an Acadian said that the French soldiers should have "left their [the English] carcasses behind and brought their skins.

On July 19, the 12-gun provincial cruiser of Donavan's, Resolution, sailed slowly into the harbour with her colours flying at half-mast.

The horrifying tale of the fate of her captain, David Donahew, and five crew members spread rapidly through the fortress.

Captain Fones brought Tartar (14 guns) back safe to her home port in Rhode Island.