Captain Downie had by this time been killed, and the acting commander of the British flagship endeavored to execute the same maneuver, but the _Confiance_ was too badly crippled to be swung about.

While she floundered, the Saratoga reduced her to submission.

One of the surviving officers stated that "the ship's company declared they would no longer stand to their quarters nor could the officers with their utmost exertions rally them." The ship was sinking, with more than a hundred ragged holes in her hull and fivescore men dead or hurt.

Fifteen minutes later the plucky _Linnet_ surrendered after a long and desperate duel with the _Eagle_.

The British galleys escaped from the bay under sail and oar because no American ships were fit to chase them, but the Royal Navy had ceased to exist on Lake Champlain.