The British sailors bore witness to the gallantry of the defense: "We never had such a drubbing in our lives," one of them testified.

Only one of Parker's ten ships was seaworthy after the fight.

It took him three weeks to refit, and not until the 4th of August did his defeated ships reach New York.
A mighty armada of seven hundred ships had meanwhile sailed into the Bay of New York.

This fleet was commanded by Admiral Lord Howe and it carried an army of thirty thousand men led by his younger brother, Sir William Howe, who had commanded at Bunker Hill.

The General was an able and well-informed soldier.