Folios 178-179: The Hon Philip Wodehouse, HMS Volage, Cawsand Bay. Advising that...

Folios 178-179: The Hon Philip Wodehouse, HMS Volage, Cawsand Bay. Advising that he proceeded to sea the previous day, as ordered, but that in the night the wind grew strongly adverse and he judged it necessary to make for this anchorage. Goes on to say that irrespective of the weather he might have had to return to land, as the ship is 'so deep', she 'will not rise at all to the sea, which occasionally came right over her' and washed an arms chest off the poop deck. The carpenter thinks the ship is loaded beyond her bearing - she cannot stow more than 3 months provisions and water below her hatches, so the tweendecks are full of the rest of the provisions and water for 14 weeks and stores completed for 6 months. He awaits their lordships' orders as to how to proceed.