The leading store ship dashed against it and broke it, but the ship swerved from her course with the shock, and struck the ground.

A shout of dismay burst from those on the walls, and one of exultation from the besiegers, who rushed down to board the vessel.
Her captain, however, pointed all his guns forward, and discharged them all at the same moment, and the recoil shook the vessel from her hold on the ground, and she floated off, and pursued her way up the river, followed by her consorts.
The delay of Kirk had cost the defenders of Londonderry more than half their number.

The fighting men had, either by disease, famine, or in the field, lost some five thousand, while of the non-combatants seven thousand had died.

The joy and exultation in the city, as the two store ships ranged up under its walls, were unbounded.

Provisions were speedily conveyed on shore, and abundance took the place of famine.
Five days later, General Rosen raised the siege and marched away with his army, which had, in the various operations of the siege, and from the effect of disease, lost upwards of three thousand men.
"This has been a bad beginning, Walter," Captain Davenant said, as they rode away from the grounds on which they had been so long encamped.