sentences:  For a year, Cooke was stationed off Newfoundland as flag captain to Sir James Wallace aboard the 74-gun , before returning to Britain and being offered command of the 28-gun .Cooke accepted, but when he found out she was ordered to the West Indies, he resigned it, having been told by Gardner that further service in the West Indies would likely kill him.Instead in early 1796 he took command of the 36-gun frigate .