 Meanwhile, Beaufort had left Belle-Île and entered the English Channel reaching Dieppe on 13 September before turning back on finding de Ruyter had withdrawn, a losing a new and powerful ship which was captured by four English ones.This ended naval and military cooperation between the two countries.In 1667, the English government was unable to finance a fleet as large and well-manned as that fitted out on July 1666, although such a strong one would have been needed to inflict a serious, and possibly decisive, defeat on the Dutch fleet.