Bonnet returned to Topsail Island to find that Blackbeard had beached the majority of their former crew, robbed the "Revenge" and two other vessels of the squadron of most of their supplies, and sailed away for parts unknown aboard the sloop "Adventure," carrying all the loot with him. Bonnet now (probably late June or early July 1718) resumed command of the "Revenge." Few, if any, of his original crew from Barbados were still aboard. Bonnet reinforced the "Revenge" by rescuing a number of men whom Blackbeard had marooned on a sandbar in Topsail Island.