Young remained in active service after the events at Minorca, and in April 1757 was in command of the 70-gun , part of the fleet sent under Edward Hawke to raid the French port of Rochefort in September that year. In March 1759 he took over command of the 74-gun , and was part of Hawke's fleet patrolling the French coast. He was appointed a commodore in the fleet, and flew his broad pennant aboard the "Mars" during the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759. The battle ended in a British victory over the French fleet commanded by the Comte de Conflans. Young went on to command a number of small squadrons in the Western Approaches to the English Channel, blockading the coast of Quiberon and the port of Brest.