 He cements his patronage relationship with Admiral Lord Samuel Hood and extends it to include First Lord of the Admiralty, Richard Howe.As a reward for his service in the Far East, Lewrie is given command of a small vessel and dispatched once more to the Caribbean in "The Gun Ketch"; he also marries Caroline Chiswick.In the Bahamas, Lewrie experiences the futility of attempting to enforce the Navigation Act and rampant local corruption which turns a blind eye to piracy and shipwrecking.