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Rh was captured, a number of her men, by order of her commander, escaped by swimming to the shore. Midshipman William C. Jackson was killed in the water. "Commodore Rowan's vessels having passed the fort and destroyed our squadron, Captain Parker now abandoned the fort, first spiking the guns. Commodore Lynch started for Richmond. The officers and men, under Captain Parker, made good their retreat to Norfolk, where they found the Beaufort and Raleigh, all that remained of Commodore Lynch's squadron. Thus ended the Confederate naval operations on the sounds of North Carolina until the affair of the Underwriter in February, 1864, and the advent of the ram Albemarle in April of the same year.