The Kent, with Admiral Watson's flag flying, quickly followed her, but before she could reach her proper station, the tide of ebb unfortunately made down the river, which occasioned her anchor to drag, so that before she brought up she had fallen abreast of the south-east bastion, the place where the Salisbury should have been, and from her mainmast aft she was exposed to the flank guns of the south-west bastion also.

130 When one dire shot, the last they could supply, Close by the board the prince's mainmast bore: All three now helpless by each other lie, And this offends not, and those fear no more.

Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay, Still floated our flag at the mainmast-head.

I warped the lady and the children upwardHeaven knows how; for the sea was breaking over us very sharptill we were at the mainmast stump, and holding on by the wreck of it.