Despite the chaotic nature of the mutiny and his ill-defined powers, Parker did manage to exert control, as on 2 June when the sloop HMS Hound arrived at the Nore and was boarded by a party of delegates.

The Hound's crew and commander violently resisted this intrusion, but Parker's arrival and display of authority quickly convinced the captain to submit and join the mutiny.

[citation needed] On 6 June he organised a meeting of the delegates with Lord Northesk to whom he handed a petition and a form of ultimatum that their grievances be addressed within a period of 54 hours, after which he warned "such steps by the Fleet will be taken as will astonish their dear countrymen".

[citation needed] When the delegates' deadline passed without reply, Parker ordered that the fleet sail for Texel[contradictory] on the morning of 9 June.

Parker was arrested on 13 June, brought briefly to Sheerness under heavy guard, then taken to HMS Neptune, the flagship of Commodore Sir Erasmus Gower, where he was court-martialled, found guilty of treason and piracy and sentenced to death.

[citation needed] Parker's wife Anne, who had worked tirelessly to prevent his execution, later rescued his body from an unconsecrated burial ground and smuggled it into London, where crowds gathered to see it.

"[4] The seafaring novels The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe and Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel each feature a character named Richard Parker, who briefly serves as an antagonist to the narrator (however, Life of Pi potentially took the name from another Richard Parker who was a victim of cannibalism while stranded on a lifeboat in 1884).