 To help signal their mutinous control over the port admiral, the flag of the port admiral was torn down and replaced with the red flag.Seven days later on 29 May, the mutineer leader Richard Parker called for delegates to come from other ships to his headquarters aboard .After it grew sufficiently dark, Cunningham gathered his crew at 9pm and announced his intention to escape the mutiny by sailing the "Clyde" out of the port in the next three hours so that they would arrive at Sheerness before daybreak.