[Newport Harbor, R.I.]
Thick foggy Weather this Morning Went to Work on Bord the Wrack1 a We Got out one Six pounder and a Number of Shot and A quantity of Pigiron all this We Stood in the Bottom of our hole So Ends this 24 howers—
D, CtMyMHi. It is not certain what position Palmer held in Revenge but part of his duty may have been captain's clerk since a portion of the log of Revenge, also in Palmer's hand, is with this journal.
1. The crew of Revenge had begun salvaging materials from the wreck of H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Kingsfisher the day before. See Journal of John Palmer, 3 Aug., above.