by George Collier HMS Raisonnable (64 guns) HMS Greyhound (32 guns) HMS Blonde (32 guns) HMS Virginia (32 guns) HMS Galatea (20 guns) HMS Camilla (20 guns) HMS Nautilus (18 guns) HMS Otter (14 guns) HMS Albany (14 guns) HMS North (14 guns) Continental Navy 1st Squadron, commanded by Solomon Lovell Warren (32 guns) Vengeance (24 guns) Charming Sally (22 guns) (privateer) Black Prince (18 guns) (privateer) Hunter (18 guns) Active (16 guns) Hazard (16 guns) Tyrannicide (14 guns) Springbird (12 guns) (privateer) Rover (10 guns) (privateer) 2nd Squadron, commanded by Dudley Saltonstall Monmouth (24 guns) Putnam (24 guns) Hector (20 guns) Hampden (20 guns) (privateer) Sky Rocket (16 guns) Defense (16 guns) (privateer) Nancy (16 guns) (privateer) Diligence (14 guns) Providence (14 guns) British forces arrive Nutting reached New York in January 1779, but General Clinton had received copies of the orders from other messengers. Clinton had already assigned the expedition to General Francis McLean who was based in Halifax, and he sent Nutting there with Germain's detailed instructions. McLean's expedition set sail from Halifax on May 30, and arrived in the Penobscot Bay on June 12. The next day, McLean and Captain Andrew Barkley, the commander of the naval convoy, identified a suitable site at which they could establish a post. On June 16, his forces began landing on a peninsula that was called Majabigwaduce (Castine, Maine) between the mouth of the Bagaduce River and a finger of the bay leading to the Penobscot River. The troops numbered approximately 700, consisting of 50 men of the Royal Artillery and Engineers, 450 of the 74th Regiment of (Highland) Foot, and 200 of the 82nd (Duke of Hamilton's) Regiment. They began to build a fortification on the peninsula which jutted into the bay and commanded the principal passage into the inner harbor. Fort George was established in the center of the small peninsula, with two batteries outside the fort to provide cover for , which was the only ship expected to stay in the area. A third battery was constructed on an island south of the bay near the mouth of the Bagaduce River, in which Albany was harbored. Construction of the works occupied the troops for the next month, until rumors came that an American expedition was being raised in Boston to oppose them, following which efforts were redoubled to prepare works suitable for defense against the Americans. Captain