Goodlad, aboard the warship Hercules, the 22-gunned flagship of the fleet, spent his time close to the ice in Bellsund, probably to protect nearby vessels.
They had also "taken away 8 shallops,[3] burned the caske, broke the coolers, and spoyled all the other materialls fitt for the said fishing, to the overthrow of the voyage, and had demolished the houses and broken downe the fort and Plattforme built the yeare before for defense of the said harbor".
[5] Goodlad is next mentioned in Edward Pellham's God's Power and Providence (1631), an account of the first successful (albeit unplanned) wintering in Spitsbergen in 1630–31.
On finding their ship absent from their rendezvous at "Green-harbour" (Grønfjorden), they made their way to Bellsund, where they spent the winter huddled in one of the huts of the Company's stations there.
Pellham describes his encounter with Goodlad as follows: "A-board the Admirall we went, unto the right noble Captaine William Goodler [sic], who is worthy to be honoured by all Sea-men for his courtesie and bounty.
In June he arrived at "Port Louis" (modern Hamburgbukta, just south of Magdalenefjorden) with two men-of-war, where he encountered a fleet of six French ships under the command of Jean Vrolicq.
[8] Early in July he was given word that two ships from Yarmouth, the Mayflower and the James, under William Cave (or Cane) and Thomas Wilkinson, had taken up residence in Hornsund.