and lieutenant dudingston fell with a musket ball in the midst of the struggle. right there, in the waters of warrick, rhode island, the very first blood in the conflict that was to become the american revolution was drawn. as the patriots commandeered the ship, brown ordered one of his rhode islanders, a physician named john moyney, to head to the ship's captain's cabin and tend to dudingston's wound. a humane gesture in their moment of victory, to help a man who had threatened to open fire on them only moments before. brown and whipple took the captive english crew back to shore and then returned to the gaspee to rid narragansett bay of her despised presence once and for all. they set her afire. the blaze spread through the ship and ultimately to the ship's powder magazine, which went off with an explosion like fire works, the blast echoing through the night across the b bay, the flash lighting the sea up like daylight, and fragments of the ship splashing down into the water all around. the sight of this audacious act is now named gaspee point, in honor of thes