 Later, in 1746 "Fowey" escorted troop transports to the recently captured Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.For most of her career "Fowey" was assigned to a split duty station cruising the coast of North America from South Carolina to Boston during the summer and operating out of Port Antonio, Jamaica and the Caribbean in the winter.On 2 November 1747 Policarpus Taylor was reassigned to HMS "Warwick", and was replaced by Captain Francis William Drake.