 He moved the next year to join HMS "Royal Oak", and served aboard her in the Mediterranean in 1731 under Sir Charles Wager.He took up his next command, that of HMS "Kingston" on 21 February 1732 and received orders on 6 April to wear a red broad pennant and prepare to sail to the West Indies to take up the post of commander-in-chief of the Jamaica Station.Contrary winds however stopped him sailing until 29 April.