Though the whole had been planned with great secrecy.

Teach received warnings from friends on shore, but paid no attention to them, and Maynard surprised him at anchor in a small inlet.
Teach cut his cable and tried to stand out to sea, but ran aground.
Maynard anchored within half gunshot and set to work to lighten his sloops, while Teach roared out curses and threats, to which Maynard replied that he expected no quarter and would give none.

Just as Maynard was ready to attack, Teach got afloat and bore down on the sloops, giving them a broadside that partially disabled one sloop, and killed or wounded twenty men in Maynard's.

Nothing discouraged, Maynard kept his men under cover and ran the pirate aboard, and was at once attacked by Teach with fourteen men.

Teach and Maynard met hand to hand, and there was a desperate encounter, Teach fighting like a ferocious animal at bay.