The grounded galleons were stormed after limited musket fire, and the wider operation yielded sixteen captured vessels. Eleven were sunk because the Dutch lacked crews for them and had no further use for them. Another galleon had to be abandoned, so the number captured does not describe the fleet that returned. Hein provisioned the released sailors and directed them toward Havana in fluent Spanish, learned during his years of captivity. Roughly 150 Dutch sailors had died of disease during the expedition, but none died in the battle. Whether any Spaniards were killed, and how many, remains unknown.
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Sixteen ships captured without Dutch battle losses
The Dutch took sixteen ships, kept only the most useful prizes, and suffered no combat deaths during the capture.