Folios 262-263: Joseph James, HMS Kite, Grimsby Roads, River Humber. Reports that...

Folios 262-263: Joseph James, HMS Kite, Grimsby Roads, River Humber. Reports that being unable to get Southward due to the weather he has today anchored here with part of the Convoy from Gottengerg [Gothenburg], and ships bound to the Northward parted company in the North Sea on the night of the 21 March 1808 with a fair wind. Reports on occurrences which had taken place relative to the British Squadron prior to his sailing, the Swedes being very desirous that our Ships of War should get into the Sound & Belt, made every exertion to get them out of the ice and on 17 March 1808 & 18 March 1808 instructed the Governor of Gottengerg [Gothenburg] sent a number of men to assist in sawing channels through the ice in order to get the ships clear, which they succeeded in, and all then Ships of War were anchored in the evening of the 18 March 1808 in the Outer Roads and on the 19 March 1808 the ships:- HMS Stately, HMS Nassau, HMS Vanguard, HMS Quebec, HMS Lyne, HMS Falcon & HMS Constant Gun Boat, sailed, some for the Sound and others for the Belt. HMS Cruizer and HMS Prometheus sailed from the Belt some days before. In consequence of the long detention of the convoy Captain [George] Parker thought proper to direct him to proceed with them, he therefore sailed on the following day, three of the Squadron which sailed on the proceeding dat were then in sight, to windward of the Wingo Beacon, & as the wind has continued in the SE quadrant, he does not think that the part of the Squadron bound for the Sound can have yet arrived there. The Danish ships of the Line which had been on the Coast of Norway had entered the Sound & was at anchor on the 14 March 1808 in Elsinore Roads. PS Reports that two of the Convoy on arriving at the Humber who's Master knew the area tried to enter at night and were totally lost they were the Bremen Packet and the Prosperity. The crew of the Prosperity is all supposed to have perished.