On 9 April 1748, a clash took place between the Aimable Grenot, commanded by Joseph Hugon, and three Dutch ships.
"the Raider noticed three Ships to leeward, towards which it turned, the weather being good; it enforced the French Colours by three signal guns… Sieur le Prey Hugon, the Captain of the Grenot approached the Dutch Captain & ordered him to heave to… the Dutch Captain refused… In order to issue the same command to the other two ships, the Grenot approached the larger of these… the Grenot fired a number of musket shots to which it responded with its full Battery of cannons, seeing which the Grenot fired all of its starboard guns, yard arm and yard arm; the Dutch Captain… delivered a Broadside… the Grenot… was practically yard arm and yard arm… delivered a broadside of Cannons & rifle-shots & continued to fire equally at all three for a period of two hours… The combat continued in this way, relentlessly, until the first two ships, the Louise Marguerite and the Liberté lowered their colours and "the third, seeing its Companions brought low, fled…." In just a few weeks, the brave captain Joseph Hugon added more prizes to these Dutch conquests, including the Clarendon, the Marie Elizabeth, the Neptune, the Helaine and the Harmonie, among others.