This Royal Navy outpost east of Antigua (headquarters of the Northern Division of the West Indies Station) and northwest of Barbados (homeport of the Windward Squadron) saw military dispatch vessels come and go on a regular basis. And as it was common knowledge among senior British sea officers in the Lesser Antilles that Richard’s brother-in-law was one of their own, Richard was offered a berth on board any Royal Navy dispatch vessel of his choosing. A month after Constellation and L’Insurgente set off northward for Hampton Roads, he boarded a swift, single-masted packet bound for Bridgetown. There was little for him to do during the three-day voyage—and little that he could do. His right arm remained wedded to his torso in a plaster cast, and he had strict orders from Dr. Balfour to keep the arm firmly bound until a physician on Barbados had examined his shoulder and found it sufficiently healed to remove the plaster. Balfour had assured Richard that while it would take many weeks for the clavicle to heal properly, it would heal completely if properly treated.
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