On 30 May, Collier joined the British assault on Stony Point, New York providing support for Sir Henry Clinton, sinking an American rebel ship carrying loot and supplies removed from the fort. One of the few naval commanders able to get along with Clinton, Collier also provided naval support for William Tryon 's raid of Connecticut ports in June before returning to New York in late-August. During this time _he_learnt that the Americans had carried out a combined land and sea assault on a recently-established British outpost on Penobscot Bay. <sep>, Pronoun: he