Hood steals the anchorage at St Kitts

Samuel Hood arrived with twenty-two ships of the line against de Grasse's twenty-nine. Before the main action, the British captured a French cutter carrying ammunition for the siege of Brimstone Hill. Hood then drew the French fleet away, slipped into its vacated anchorage, and formed an anchored line described as an L or a lopsided V. Three French attacks failed to break that position. Holding the anchorage obstructed French naval support and supply for the siege, but Hood had no troops to change the fighting ashore. Brimstone Hill fell despite his successful fleet maneuver.