The leader of the frigates rapidly overhauled the _Raleigh_ after that, and at 4 in the afternoon the _Raleigh_ tacked to the west to see what the force of the leader was. Captain Barry hoped he might make a good fight with her single-handed before the other could come up, and at 5 in the afternoon “the _Raleigh_ edged away, brailing her mizzen and taking in her staysails.” Crossing the enemy’s bows, the _Raleigh_ dropped down abreast of him, and set the American ensign. The frigate, showing fourteen guns on a side, hoisted the king’s flag, and then the _Raleigh_ gave her a broadside. She replied swiftly, and at the second fire had the good fortune to carry away the _Raleigh’s_ foretopmast and mizzen-topgallantmast. She was now able to outsail the _Raleigh_, and so shot ahead to get clear of the too hot fire of the Yankee, and then began to fire at long range while Captain Barry was clearing away the wreck aloft. Once the wreckage was down, however, Barry bore up and strove to get alongside and board, but with her superior canvas the frigate avoided this. Meantime the other ship was coming near, and Captain Barry, finding he could not, in his crippled condition, maintain a fight with two, decided to run his ship ashore on some islands that were visible, for the fight was made off the coast of Maine. And then night came on with a still fading breeze. The _Raleigh_, with all sail set, headed for the coast. The frigates followed, and until midnight the two ships drifted along with the red flames spurting from their sides, and the nearing cliffs echoing to the thunder of the conflict. At 12 o’clock the enemy hauled off for a brief interval, but the other ship having come up, the two renewed the conflict, and then the _Raleigh_ grounded. The enemy now took positions on the _Raleigh’s_ quarter. Captain Barry kept the four stern chasers working, but lowered his boats forward and went ashore with a lot of his men to fortify the island on which he had grounded, being determined to fire his ship and resist capture in any event. But while he was away a frightened petty officer hauled down the flag. The _Raleigh_ was eventually put into the British navy, but Captain Barry and his men on the island escaped to the mainland. The ship that made so good a fight against the _Raleigh_ was the _Unicorn_, of twenty-eight guns. Her consort was the _Experiment_, of fifty. The Americans lost twenty-five killed and wounded, and the _Unicorn_ ten killed and an unknown number of wounded--probably twenty-five or thirty.