On 2 December 1781, the ship, now commanded by Captain Henry Cromwell and bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, sailed with eleven other ships of the line, a 50-gun fourth-rate, and five frigates, to intercept a French convoy that had sailed from Brest on 10 December. Not knowing that the convoy was protected by twenty-one ships of the line under the command of Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, Kempenfelt ordered a chase when they were sighted on 12 December and began the battle. When _he_noted the French superiority, he contented himself with capturing fifteen sail of the convoy. <sep>, Pronoun: he <sep>, A: Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen <sep>, B: Kempenfelt