3 May 1746: His Majesty’s Ships Greyhound (20 guns), Baltimore (14 guns), and Terror (14 guns) sailed into Loch nan Uamh in Arisaig and engaged two French privateers, Bellone (34 guns) and Mars (32 guns), which had arrived to deliver weapons and money for the Jacobites and to inquire into the whereabouts of Charles Edward Stuart and the current situation of the Jacobite rising. The Royal Navy inflicted heavy casualties on the French vessels but disengaged from the fight due to damaged rigging. After carrying out emergency repair work, the French set sail that evening for France, carrying a number of Jacobite fugitives, including the Duke of Perth, his brother Lord John Drummond, Lord Elcho and John Cameron of Lochiel.
3 May 1746: Major-General John Campbell of Mamore wrote to the Duke of Cumberland’s secretary Sir Everard Fawkener, stating “a great many of the chiefs were said to be retired to Locharkaig, Knoydart, Moydart, Arisaig and Morara and that it was suspected that the Pretender’s son was amongst them.”
