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the town was relieved by a naval force under Captain Swanley, a 
seaman of great repute, who for his services received the thanks 
of Parliament and a gold chain of £200 value ; and there is no 
doubt that this fleet played an important part in the subsequent 
action against Mount Stamford. 
When Grenville resumed operations against the good old town 
after one of the pauses in active siege work, he seized under cover 
of the night the abandoned ruins of this fort, and proceeded to 
repair and re-fortify it. This was more than the garrison could 
stand, as the position was considered to be one of prime impor- 
tance, and they forthwith, we are told, under cover of the fire of 
sixty guns from the ships and forts, " beat up the dust about the 
Cavies' ears," attacked and carried the fort by assault. 
In fact, naval operations are repeatedly mentioned, and as the 
Cavaliers at one time held possession of the whole south side of 
the Cattewater, including a fort supposed to have been near Hooe, 
called Fort Arundel, it is too much to suppose that such close 
quarters resulted in damage to one side only, but that ships as well 
as forts must have suffered from the battering of culverins, demi- 
culverins, sakers, and the brood of other murdering pieces. The 
old ship we have been discussing was probably one of these. 
Eeceiving serious injury she was run ashore under cover of the 
guns of the Cattedown work, dismantled, all her guns and gear 
removed, and the superstructure carried away down as far as 
low-water would permit. She was in shallow water, clear of the 
channel, and would be of no inconvenience or danger to navigation. 
There, with her ballast sitting heavily on her, or at least what 
remained of her, she slowly sank in the mud, and was gradually 
covered up by the natural tidal silt, and the operations of the 
busy stream -tinners who vigorously fouled the Dartmoor rivers 
down to the time of Queen Anne. 
If acceptable, I have much pleasure in offering these relics to 
the Council, to be placed in the Museum as a tangible reminder of 
a very glorious page in the history of Plymouth. 
