Barlow meets his old master at Chatham, not long before he dies. A chain is placed across the Medway at Gillingham to thwart possible attacks. The commander of a fireship that abandoned the SAINT PATRICK when she was attacked is shot for cowardice. The MONKE convoys some merchant ships part of the way from Plymouth to the Caribbean, then cruises in the Channel on the lookout for enemy ships. They put into Bantry Bay to re-water..