Governor West and his party arrived on the James River on June 9, just as the "Deliverance" and "Patience" were sailing downriver to leave Virginia. Intercepting them about 10 miles downstream from Jamestown near Mulberry Island (now a part of the massive U.S. Army Base at Fort Eustis in Newport News), the new governor forced the "Deliverance" and "Patience" to return to the abandoned colony. This was not a popular decision at the time, but Lord Delaware was to prove a new kind of leader for Virginia.