On Tuesday October 30th, Dartmouth weighed from the Gunfleet with “32 sail of fighting ships and 13 fireships” “to look for them”; for the wind, having first blown from the northward, settled in the south-east and gave the conditions he desired for the execution of his plan, conditions which would bring out the Dutch and falsify his yesterday's half prophecy as to their growing sick of their design. Helped by the afternoon ebb, he hoped “to get clear of the Galleper before night”; but he did not succeed. His Master recorded the anchorage of the ‘Resolution’ with professional accuracy, as “between the Sledway and the Longsand Head, the Naze bearing W. and the Church of Bawdsey N.W. ½ N.” Three yachts were put out, to north and east and southward. The purpose for which Dartmouth had stood to sea must have been realised by all his fleet and, doubtless, when sail was shortened that October evening, those “chiefest and most considerable” captains, whose voices at the last council of war had been loudest in satisfaction at the advantage of the Gunfleet as a base of operations, were speculating as to whether, after all, a point so “artfully gained” would be lost to their design. The wind and sea got up; and, when morning broke, no sail could be made.