Two courts martial were held at Port Royal. The first cleared Purvis and his officers of blame for the loss of the Dunkirk's Prize. The second found two of the men who refused to follow the captain guilty of mutinous conduct and sentenced them to be flogged around the fleet. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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She could not be refloated, so Purvis ordered his crew to man the boats and go with him to capture the grounded French ship before she could warp free. Many men - not all - followed him, and the ship was successfully captured, refloated, and sailed on to Jamaica. The Dunkirk's Prize was abandoned.

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18 Oct 1708 (O.S.) // 24-gun 6th-rate HMS Dunkirk's Prize, under Master & Commander George Purvis, was chasing a French merchantman off Cap François, Hispaniola, when the merchantman ran aground. She closed the stranded French ship, ran onto a reef, and very quickly she was firmly aground as well.

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The ship remained partially capsized until her mizzen mast was cut away, when she righted herself, but in a heavily flooded condition. She ran inshore and attempted to anchor but the cables parted and she was driven onto the shore and wrecked. 23 men lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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18 Oct 1760 // 28-gun frigate HMS Lyme was wrecked on the coast of Sweden near Halmstad after being struck by a heavy squall while trying to sail out of the Baltic into the North Sea through the Kattegat. She was beating into storm-force winds when the squall rolled her over onto her beam ends.

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