Now let us see what the log of the Terrible for 1697 has to tell us. Presumably Winstanley and his men had been taken to the Eddystone prior to June 14, on which date we find the Terrible ‘standing off’ the rock, and guarding it; but we have no note of her having landed any one upon it. The next two or three days were spent on similar duty, the vessel anchoring each night in Cawsand Bay, and proceeding to the Eddystone at daybreak. On June 25, Commissioner St. Loe came on board and the Terrible at once sailed with him to the fleet cruising in the Channel, returning to Plymouth Sound at night. From the 27th to the 30th she appears to have been fog-bound off Fowey, and here we may leave her to return to what was meanwhile passing on the Eddystone. It would seem that Winstanley and his men had, this year, not returned at night to the guardship, but had slept on the rock, the Terrible returning each morning to guard them; but, as we see on June 25, St. Loe, without following his instructions by making other provision for watching the Eddystone, should the Terrible be otherwise employed, had put himself on board the guardship and sailed to the fleet. On returning to Plymouth she appears to have endeavoured to resume her position off the rock, but, in the fog, missed her way, and finally cast anchor, much to the west of it, off Fowey, and here she remained for the next three or four days. This was a grand opportunity for the French privateers. Probably on the first day of the Terrible’s absence, one of their vessels, ‘a small French challoope,’ as she is called, sent her boat, manned with thirty armed men, who, landing on the rock, soon overpowered Winstanley and his handful of labourers, and forcing them into the guardship’s boat stripped them stark naked, cut them adrift, and carried the engineer back to the privateer, which, on taking all on board, steered away to sea[3]. How the luckless workmen in the Terrible’s boat got back to shore we do not know, but by some good fortune they must soon have done so, and have given intelligence of what had happened; since, within a few days—namely, on the afternoon of the 28th—information of this affair had actually reached the Admiralty. On the following day, Josiah Burchett, the secretary, addressed an apparently well-deserved rebuke to St. Loe:— ‘ADMIRALTY, _June 29, [16]97_. ‘SIR,