Pirate Nation. David Childs

Cumberland. On the positive side of this voyage, Cumberland dispatched Discovery westward to warn Howard of the departure of Admiral Alonso de Bazan’s powerful fleet sailing to bring him to battle. As a result, Howard managed to get his ships out of Flores Bay moments before the Spaniards arrived, leaving just Grenville in Revenge to stay behind for death and glory, having given a fine, but foolish, demonstration of English firepower.

      a Another Spanish prisoner records fifteen pieces of artillery onboard.

      b Similar suffering was endured by the crew of the Bristol pirate ship Delight whose crew wrote a petition outlining why they had behaved mutinously in the Straits in February 1589.