"as we opened the reach above Pig Point, I plainly discovered Commodore Barney's bread pendant in the headmost vessel, a large sleep and the remainder of the flotilla extending in a long line stern of her. Our boats now advanced towards them as rapidly as possible, but on nearing them, he observed the sloop bearing the bread pendant to be on fire, and she very soon afterwards blew up. I now saw clearly that they were all abandoned and on fire with trains to their magazines, and out of the seventeen vessels which composed this formidable and so much vaunted flotilla sixteen were in quick succession blown to atoms, and the seventeenth, in which the first had not taken, was captured."