 The Newfoundland Campaign started during August 1744.Captain Robert Young, of the 44-gun ship "Kinsale", lying in St. John's, Newfoundland, received intelligence that five French ships were in the port of Fishotte and resolved on despatching an armed prize to attack them.The prize was named the "St. Philip", and was manned by eighty men of the "Kinsale"s crew, and commanded by one of her lieutenants, and accompanied by three 10-gun colonial privateers.