 The Royal Navy regularly supplied the <unk> food from Britain , and visiting vessels brought bags of earth that allowed the development of a vegetable garden . Smith supported the islands with several <unk> , including the converted hoys Badger , Hawke , and Shark , the fireship Nancy , and the <unk> @-@ class floating battery Sandfly , which he had had purpose @-@ built for the defence of the islands . Lieutenant Charles Papps Price , captain of Badger and an unpopular officer who had repeatedly been passed over for promotion , commanded the British occupation ; Price spent most of his time on the islands with a prostitute he had brought from Portsmouth . 
