After the battle, Thomas Hardy, commander of the corvette , was promoted to captain of HMS "Vanguard", and Berry embarked for Britain in , carrying Nelson's despatches. During the voyage, however, the "Leander" was accosted and captured by one of the two surviving French ships, the 74-gun "Généreux", and Berry was severely wounded by a flying fragment of another man's skull, which was "driven through his arm". It was a bloody and courageous battle, as described by one of the main-deck gunners, Tim Stewart: "We fired everything at French we could get hold of—crow-bars, nails, and all sorts... We killed nearly three hundred of them before we surrendered, and our brave captain ordered our colours to be hauled down."