 Although chased all through the North Sea beyond their base Dunkirk, some of the privateers were able to escape to Dieppe or Spain.Among those captured however, Colaert and his crew were forced to surrender after the "Crabbelcat"'s masts were destroyed in an action off Dunkirk.Taken to the city of Flushing in Zeeland, he and thirty-seven of his crew (with the exception of six boys) were publicly hanged in September 1600.