When the delegates' deadline passed without reply, Parker ordered that the fleet sail for Texel on the morning of 9 June. However, no ship moved when the signal to sail was given and the mutiny was effectively over. Parker was arrested on 13 June, brought briefly to Sheerness under heavy guard, then taken to , the flagship of Commodore Sir Erasmus Gower, where he was court-martialled, found guilty of treason and piracy and sentenced to death. He was executed on board the amid much ceremony on 30 June 1797.