[6] Jamaican officials were tipped off to his location and dispatched the warship HMS Scarborough under Francis Hume to hunt him down.

After sinking one of the pirate sloops and demolishing the shore batteries they had set up, Hume anchored offshore.

[6] Later that month Samuel Bellamy and his partner Paulsgrave Williams put into St. Croix to repair and resupply when they were hailed by sailors from ashore.

[6] Hume was rewarded for the action against Martel and others with command of the much larger warship HMS Bedford.

[6] Martel himself disappears after escaping Hume; some sources claim he accepted King George I's general pardon offered in late 1717 to all pirates who surrendered within a year.