Eight large rafts, each carrying many mortars, were moored in the harbour, and, some days before the English arrived, all was ready for their reception.
On the sixth of June the whole allied fleet was on the Atlantic about fifteen leagues west of Cape Finisterre.

There Russell and Berkeley parted company.

Russell proceeded towards the Mediterranean.

Berkeley's squadron, with the troops on board, steered for the coast of Brittany, and anchored just without Camaret Bay, close to the mouth of the harbour of Brest.

Talmash proposed to land in Camaret Bay.