sentences:  Rejoining Morgan in his later raids on Maracaibo and Gibraltar, Venezuela, an explosion aboard his ship would kill many of the officers in the expedition before his ship was sunk.Reportedly despondent over the loss of his ship, Collier left the fleet and was allowed to take command of the "Satisfaction" spending the next 18 months off the Mexican coastline.Eventually he was persuaded to join Morgan as he was planning his raid on Panama September 1670 and appointed vice-admiral of the expedition.