This Spanish victory, compounded by the serious storm losses in the Caribbean, produced a financial crisis among marine insurance underwriters throughout Europe. Many went bankrupt, and war insurance rates, already remarkably high due to the presence of privateers, were driven to intolerable levels. It also increased and made increasingly public the dissatisfaction which prevailed against the ministry, and against the conduct and government of the Royal Navy. The five British East Indiaman were brought into Spanish service. The Spanish navy commissioned the 30-gun "Hillsborough" as the 12-gun store-ship "Santa Clotilde", the 28-gun "Mountstuart" as the 34-gun "Santa Balvina", the 28-gun "Royal George" as the 40-gun "Real Jorge", the 28-gun "Godfrey" as the 34-gun "Santa Biviana" and the 28-gun "Gatton" as the 34-gun "Santa Paula". Among the British merchantmen who managed to escape were "British Queen" and "Fanny", whose copper sheathing helped distance their pursuers.