Complex sentence: Then "Kangaroo" was patrolling off Barcelona when she met up with the brig, under Commander Lord Cochrane on 1 June, and encountered a privateer from Minorca that informed them that she had sighted a Spanish convoy of 12 vessels and five escorts three days earlier.
Split into simpler sentences: Then "Kangaroo" was patrolling off Barcelona when she met up with the brig, under Commander Lord Cochrane on 1 June. They encountered a privateer from Minorca that informed them that she had sighted a Spanish convoy of 12 vessels and five escorts three days earlier.