 Cobb returned to Halifax with the news and was ordered by Governor Charles Lawrence to blockade the harbour until Captain William Kensey arrived in the warship , and then to assist Kensey in capturing the French prize and taking it to Halifax.In the Action of 8 June 1755, a naval battle off Cape Race, Newfoundland, the British found on board the French ships "Alcide" and "Lys" 10,000 scalping knives for Acadians and Indians serving under Mi'kmaq Chief Cope and Acadian Beausoleil as they continued to fight Father Le Loutre's War.The British also thwarted French supplies from reaching Acadians and Mi'kmaq resisting the British in the previous war, King George's War—see First Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747).