On the 27th, Sir John Norris and Sir Charles Wager hoisted their flags aboard the _Cambridge_ and the _Ruby_ respectively, and signal was made for a court-martial. Six men of the _Dover_ were tried for mutiny, theft, disorderly conduct, and desertion of their ship after she had gone ashore "near Alborough Haven." Being all found guilty they were whipped from ship to ship next morning. Each received six lashes on the bare back at the side of each ship then riding at the Nore. A week later, the _Ruby_ and the _Centurion_ sailed leisurely to Spithead, chasing a Danish ship on the way. On March 11, the _Ruby_ anchored at Spithead and struck her topmasts. On March 18, Captain Chamberlen removed "into ye _Monmouth_" with all his "followers," Anson among them. The _Monmouth_ sailed on April 13, with three other men-of-war, as a guard to the West Indian fleet, bound for Port Royal. Her master says that on June 7, in lat. 21° 36' N., long. 18° 9' W., "we duckt those men that want willing to pay for crossing the tropick." In August, off the Jamaican coast, a man fell overboard and was drowned. Later in the month, a hurricane very nearly put an end to Anson and _Monmouth_ together. Both pumps were kept going, there was four feet of water on the ballast and the same between decks, the foretopmast went, the main and mizen masts were cut away, and men with buckets worked for their lives "bealing at each hatchway." Port Royal was reached on September 1. The _Monmouth_ made a cruise after pirates in Blewfields Bay, and returned to Spithead in June 1713. Anson is next heard of as a second lieutenant aboard the _Hampshire_. He was in the _Montague_, 60-gun ship, in Sir George Byng's action off Cape Passaro, in March 1718. In 1722, he commanded the _Weasel_ sloop in some obscure services in the North Sea against the Dutch smugglers and French Jacobites. During this command he made several captures of brandy. From 1724 till 1735 he was employed in various commands, mostly in the {xiv} American colonies, against the pirates. From 1735 till 1737 he was not employed at sea. In 1737, he took command of the _Centurion_, and sailed in her to the Guinea Coast, to protect our gum merchants from the French. His gunner was disordered in his head during the cruise; and Sierra Leone was so unhealthy that "the merchant ships had scarce a well man on board." A man going mad and others dying were the only adventures of the voyage. He was back in the Downs to prepare for this more eventful voyage by July 21, 1739.