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In
ten
minutes
afterward
,
the
Llangaron
,
rudderless
,
and
with
the
blades
of
her
propellers
shivered
and
crushed
,
was
slowly
turning
her
starboard
to
the
wind
and
the
sea
,
and
beginning
to
roll
like
a
log
of
eight
thousand
tons
.
Besides
the
Llangaron
,
three
ironclads
were
now
drifting
broadside
to
the
sea
.
But
there
was
no
time
to
succour
disabled
vessels
,
for
the
rest
of
the
fleet
was
coming
on
,
and
there
was
great
work
for
the
crabs
.
Against
these
enemies
,
swift
of
motion
and
sudden
in
action
,
the
torpedo
-
boats
found
it
almost
impossible
to
operate
,
for
the
British
ships
and
the
crabs
were
so
rapidly
nearing
each
other
that
a
torpedo
sent
out
against
an
enemy
was
more
than
likely
to
run
against
the
hull
of
a
friend
.
Each
crab
sped
at
the
top
of
its
speed
for
a
ship
,
not
only
to
attack
,
but
also
to
protect
itself
.
Once
only
did
the
crabs
give
the
torpedo
-
boats
a
chance
.
A
mile
or
two
north
of
the
scene
of
action
,
a
large
cruiser
was
making
her
way
rapidly
toward
the
repeller
,
which
was
still
lying
almost
motionless
,
four
miles
to
the
westward
.
As
it
was
highly
probable
that
this
vessel
carried
dynamite
guns
,
Crab
Q
,
which
was
the
fastest
of
her
class
,
was
signalled
to
go
after
her
.
She
had
scarcely
begun
her
course
across
the
open
space
of
sea
before
a
torpedo
-
boat
was
in
pursuit
.
Fast
as
was
the
latter
,
the
crab
was
faster
,
and
quite
as
easily
managed
.
She
was
in
a
position
of
great
danger
,
and
her
only
safety
lay
in
keeping
herself
on
a
line
between
the
torpedo
-
boat
and
the
gun
-
boat
,
and
to
shorten
as
quickly
as
possible
the
distance
between
herself
and
that
vessel
.
If
the
torpedo
-
boat
shot
to
one
side
in
order
to
get
the
crab
out
of
line
,
the
crab
,
its
back
sometimes
hidden
by
the
tossing
waves
,
sped
also
to
the
same
side
.
When
the
torpedo
-
boat
could
aim
a
gun
at
the
crab
and
not
at
the
gun
-
boat
,
a
deadly
torpedo
flew
into
the
sea
;
but
a
tossing
sea
and
a
shifting
target
were
unfavourable
to
the
gunner
’
s
aim
.
It
was
not
long
,
however
,
before
the
crab
had
run
the
chase
which
might
so
readily
have
been
fatal
to
it
,
and
was
so
near
the
gun
-
boat
that
no
more
torpedoes
could
be
fired
at
it
.
Of
course
the
officers
and
crew
of
the
gun
-
boat
had
watched
with
most
anxious
interest
the
chase
of
the
crab
.
The
vessel
was
one
which
had
been
fitted
out
for
service
with
dynamite
guns
,
of
which
she
carried
some
of
very
long
range
for
this
class
of
artillery
,
and
she
had
been
ordered
to
get
astern
of
the
repeller
and
to
do
her
best
to
put
a
few
dynamite
bombs
on
board
of
her
.
The
dynamite
gun
-
boat
therefore
had
kept
ahead
at
full
speed
,
determined
to
carry
out
her
instructions
if
she
should
be
allowed
to
do
so
;
but
her
speed
was
not
as
great
as
that
of
a
crab
,
and
when
the
torpedo
-
boat
had
given
up
the
chase
,
and
the
dreaded
crab
was
drawing
swiftly
near
,
the
captain
thought
it
time
for
bravery
to
give
place
to
prudence
.
With
the
large
amount
of
explosive
material
of
the
most
tremendous
and
terrific
character
which
he
had
on
board
,
it
would
be
the
insanity
of
courage
for
him
to
allow
his
comparatively
small
vessel
to
be
racked
,
shaken
,
and
partially
shivered
by
the
powerful
jaws
of
the
on
-
coming
foe
.
As
he
could
neither
fly
nor
fight
,
he
hauled
down
his
flag
in
token
of
surrender
,
the
first
instance
of
the
kind
which
had
occurred
in
this
war
.
When
the
director
of
Crab
Q
,
through
his
lookout
-
glass
,
beheld
this
action
on
the
part
of
the
gun
-
boat
,
he
was
a
little
perplexed
as
to
what
he
should
next
do
.
To
accept
the
surrender
of
the
British
vessel
,
and
to
assume
control
of
her
,
it
was
necessary
to
communicate
with
her
.
The
communications
of
the
crabs
were
made
entirely
by
black
-
smoke
signals
,
and
these
the
captain
of
the
gun
-
boat
could
not
understand
.
The
heavy
hatches
in
the
mailed
roof
which
could
be
put
in
use
when
the
crab
was
cruising
,
could
not
be
opened
when
she
was
at
her
fighting
depth
,
and
in
a
tossing
sea
.
A
means
was
soon
devised
of
communicating
with
the
gun
-
boat
.
A
speaking
-
tube
was
run
up
through
one
of
the
air
-
pipes
of
the
crab
,
which
pipe
was
then
elevated
some
distance
above
the
surface
.
Through
this
the
director
hailed
the
other
vessel
,
and
as
the
air
-
pipe
was
near
the
stern
of
the
crab
,
and
therefore
at
a
distance
from
the
only
visible
portion
of
the
turtle
-
back
roof
,
his
voice
seemed
to
come
out
of
the
depths
of
the
ocean
.
The
surrender
was
accepted
,
and
the
captain
of
the
gun
-
boat
was
ordered
to
stop
his
engines
and
prepare
to
be
towed
.
When
this
order
had
been
given
,
the
crab
moved
round
to
the
bow
of
the
gun
-
boat
,
and
grasping
the
cut
-
water
with
its
forceps
,
reversed
its
engines
and
began
to
back
rapidly
toward
the
British
fleet
,
taking
with
it
the
captured
vessel
as
a
protection
against
torpedoes
while
in
transit
.
The
crab
slowed
up
not
far
from
one
of
the
foremost
of
the
British
ships
,
and
coming
round
to
the
quarter
of
the
gun
-
boat
,
the
astonished
captain
of
that
vessel
was
informed
,
through
the
speaking
-
tube
,
that
if
he
would
give
his
parole
to
keep
out
of
this
fight
,
he
would
be
allowed
to
proceed
to
his
anchorage
in
Portsmouth
harbour
.
The
parole
was
given
,
and
the
dynamite
gun
-
boat
,
after
reporting
to
the
flag
-
ship
,
steamed
away
to
Portsmouth
.
The
situation
now
became
one
which
was
unparalleled
in
the
history
of
naval
warfare
.
On
the
side
of
the
British
,
seven
war
-
ships
were
disabled
and
drifting
slowly
to
the
south
-
east
.
For
half
an
hour
no
advance
had
been
made
by
the
British
fleet
,
for
whenever
one
of
the
large
vessels
had
steamed
ahead
,
such
vessel
had
become
the
victim
of
a
crab
,
and
the
Vice
-
Admiral
commanding
the
fleet
had
signalled
not
to
advance
until
farther
orders
.
The
crabs
were
also
lying
-
to
,
each
to
the
windward
of
,
and
not
far
from
,
one
of
the
British
ships
.
They
had
ceased
to
make
any
attacks
,
and
were
resting
quietly
under
protection
of
the
enemy
.
This
,
with
the
fact
that
the
repeller
still
lay
four
miles
away
,
without
any
apparent
intention
of
taking
part
in
the
battle
,
gave
the
situation
its
peculiar
character
.
The
British
Vice
-
Admiral
did
not
intend
to
remain
in
this
quiescent
condition
.
It
was
,
of
course
,
useless
to
order
forth
his
ironclads
,
simply
to
see
them
disabled
and
set
adrift
.
There
was
another
arm
of
the
service
which
evidently
could
be
used
with
better
effect
upon
this
peculiar
foe
than
could
the
great
battle
-
ships
.
But
before
doing
anything
else
,
he
must
provide
for
the
safety
of
those
of
his
vessels
which
had
been
rendered
helpless
by
the
crabs
,
and
some
of
which
were
now
drifting
dangerously
near
to
each
other
.
Despatches
had
been
sent
to
Portsmouth
for
tugs
,
but
it
would
not
do
to
wait
until
these
arrived
,
and
a
sufficient
number
of
ironclads
were
detailed
to
tow
their
injured
consorts
into
port
.
When
this
order
had
been
given
,
the
Vice
-
Admiral
immediately
prepared
to
renew
the
fight
,
and
this
time
his
efforts
were
to
be
directed
entirely
against
the
repeller
.
It
would
be
useless
to
devote
any
further
attention
to
the
crabs
,
especially
in
their
present
positions
.
But
if
the
chief
vessel
of
the
Syndicate
’
s
fleet
,
with
its
spring
armour
and
its
terrible
earthquake
bombs
,
could
be
destroyed
,
it
was
quite
possible
that
those
sea
-
parasites
,
the
crabs
,
could
also
be
disposed
of
.
Every
torpedo
-
boat
was
now
ordered
to
the
front
,
and
in
a
long
line
,
almost
abreast
of
each
other
,
these
swift
vessels
—
the
light
-
infantry
of
the
sea
—
advanced
upon
the
solitary
and
distant
foe
.
If
one
torpedo
could
but
reach
her
hull
,
the
Vice
-
Admiral
,
in
spite
of
seven
disabled
ironclads
and
a
captured
gun
-
boat
,
might
yet
gaze
proudly
at
his
floating
flag
,
even
if
his
own
ship
should
be
drifting
broadside
to
the
sea
.
The
line
of
torpedo
-
boats
,
slightly
curving
inward
,
had
advanced
about
a
mile
,
when
Repeller
No
.
11
awoke
from
her
seeming
sleep
,
and
began
to
act
.
The
two
great
guns
at
her
bow
were
trained
upward
,
so
that
a
bomb
discharged
from
them
would
fall
into
the
sea
a
mile
and
a
half
ahead
.
Slowly
turning
her
bow
from
side
to
side
,
so
that
the
guns
would
cover
a
range
of
nearly
half
a
circle
,
the
instantaneous
motor
-
bombs
of
the
repeller
were
discharged
,
one
every
half
minute
.
One
of
the
most
appalling
characteristics
of
the
motor
-
bombs
was
the
silence
which
accompanied
their
discharge
and
action
.
No
noise
was
heard
,
except
the
flash
of
sound
occasioned
by
the
removal
of
the
particles
of
the
object
aimed
at
,
and
the
subsequent
roar
of
wind
or
fall
of
water
.
As
each
motor
-
bomb
dropped
into
the
channel
,
a
dense
cloud
appeared
high
in
the
air
,
above
a
roaring
,
seething
cauldron
,
hollowed
out
of
the
waters
and
out
of
the
very
bottom
of
the
channel
.
Into
this
chasm
the
cloud
quickly
came
down
,
condensed
into
a
vast
body
of
water
,
which
fell
,
with
the
roar
of
a
cyclone
,
into
the
dreadful
abyss
from
which
it
had
been
torn
,
before
the
hissing
walls
of
the
great
hollow
had
half
filled
it
with
their
sweeping
surges
.
The
piled
-
up
mass
of
the
redundant
water
was
still
sending
its
maddened
billows
tossing
and
writhing
in
every
direction
toward
their
normal
level
,
when
another
bomb
was
discharged
;
another
surging
abyss
appeared
,
another
roar
of
wind
and
water
was
heard
,
and
another
mountain
of
furious
billows
uplifted
itself
in
a
storm
of
spray
and
foam
,
raging
that
it
had
found
its
place
usurped
.
Slowly
turning
,
the
repeller
discharged
bomb
after
bomb
,
building
up
out
of
the
very
sea
itself
a
barrier
against
its
enemies
.
Under
these
thundering
cataracts
,
born
in
an
instant
,
and
coming
down
all
at
once
in
a
plunging
storm
;
into
these
abysses
,
with
walls
of
water
and
floors
of
cleft
and
shivered
rocks
;
through
this
wide
belt
of
raging
turmoil
,
thrown
into
new
frenzy
after
the
discharge
of
every
bomb
,
—
no
vessel
,
no
torpedo
,
could
pass
.
The
air
driven
off
in
every
direction
by
tremendous
and
successive
concussions
came
rushing
back
in
shrieking
gales
,
which
tore
up
the
waves
into
blinding
foam
.
For
miles
in
every
direction
the
sea
swelled
and
upheaved
into
great
peaked
waves
,
the
repeller
rising
upon
these
almost
high
enough
to
look
down
into
the
awful
chasms
which
her
bombs
were
making
.
A
torpedo
-
boat
caught
in
one
of
the
returning
gales
was
hurled
forward
almost
on
her
beam
ends
until
she
was
under
the
edge
of
one
of
the
vast
masses
of
descending
water
.
The
flood
which
,
from
even
the
outer
limits
of
this
falling
-
sea
,
poured
upon
and
into
the
unlucky
vessel
nearly
swamped
her
,
and
when
she
was
swept
back
by
the
rushing
waves
into
less
stormy
waters
,
her
officers
and
crew
leaped
into
their
boats
and
deserted
her
.
By
rare
good
-
fortune
their
boats
were
kept
afloat
in
the
turbulent
sea
until
they
reached
the
nearest
torpedo
-
vessel
.
Five
minutes
afterward
a
small
but
carefully
aimed
motor
-
bomb
struck
the
nearly
swamped
vessel
,
and
with
the
roar
of
all
her
own
torpedoes
she
passed
into
nothing
.
The
British
Vice
-
Admiral
had
carefully
watched
the
repeller
through
his
glass
,
and
he
noticed
that
simultaneously
with
the
appearance
of
the
cloud
in
the
air
produced
by
the
action
of
the
motor
-
bombs
there
were
two
puffs
of
black
smoke
from
the
repeller
.
These
were
signals
to
the
crabs
to
notify
them
that
a
motor
-
gun
had
been
discharged
,
and
thus
to
provide
against
accidents
in
case
a
bomb
should
fail
to
act
.
One
puff
signified
that
a
bomb
had
been
discharged
to
the
north
;
two
,
that
it
had
gone
eastward
;
and
so
on
.
If
,
therefore
,
a
crab
should
see
a
signal
of
this
kind
,
and
perceive
no
signs
of
the
action
of
a
bomb
,
it
would
be
careful
not
to
approach
the
repeller
from
the
quarter
indicated
.
It
is
true
that
in
case
of
the
failure
of
a
bomb
to
act
,
another
bomb
would
be
dropped
upon
the
same
spot
,
but
the
instructions
of
the
War
Syndicate
provided
that
every
possible
precaution
should
be
taken
against
accidents
.
Of
course
the
Vice
-
Admiral
did
not
understand
these
signals
,
nor
did
he
know
that
they
were
signals
,
but
he
knew
that
they
accompanied
the
discharge
of
a
motor
-
gun
.
Once
he
noticed
that
there
was
a
short
cessation
in
the
hitherto
constant
succession
of
water
avalanches
,
and
during
this
lull
he
had
seen
two
puffs
from
the
repeller
,
and
the
destruction
,
at
the
same
moment
,
of
the
deserted
torpedo
-
boat
.
It
was
,
therefore
,
plain
enough
to
him
that
if
a
motor
-
bomb
could
be
placed
so
accurately
upon
one
torpedo
-
boat
,
and
with
such
terrible
result
,
other
bombs
could
quite
as
easily
be
discharged
upon
the
other
torpedo
-
boats
which
formed
the
advanced
line
of
the
fleet
.
When
the
barrier
of
storm
and
cataract
again
began
to
stretch
itself
in
front
of
the
repeller
,
he
knew
that
not
only
was
it
impossible
for
the
torpedo
-
boats
to
send
their
missives
through
this
raging
turmoil
,
but
that
each
of
these
vessels
was
itself
in
danger
of
instantaneous
destruction
.
Unwilling
,
therefore
,
to
expose
his
vessels
to
profitless
danger
,
the
Vice
-
Admiral
ordered
the
torpedo
-
boats
to
retire
from
the
front
,
and
the
whole
line
of
them
proceeded
to
a
point
north
of
the
fleet
,
where
they
lay
to
.
When
this
had
been
done
,
the
repeller
ceased
the
discharge
of
bombs
;
but
the
sea
was
still
heaving
and
tossing
after
the
storm
,
when
a
despatch
-
boat
brought
orders
from
the
British
Admiralty
to
the
flagship
.
Communication
between
the
British
fleet
and
the
shore
,
and
consequently
London
,
had
been
constant
,
and
all
that
had
occurred
had
been
quickly
made
known
to
the
Admiralty
and
the
Government
.
The
orders
now
received
by
the
Vice
-
Admiral
were
to
the
effect
that
it
was
considered
judicious
to
discontinue
the
conflict
for
the
day
,
and
that
he
and
his
whole
fleet
should
return
to
Portsmouth
to
receive
further
orders
.
In
issuing
these
commands
the
British
Government
was
actuated
simply
by
motives
of
humanity
and
common
sense
.
The
British
fleet
was
thoroughly
prepared
for
ordinary
naval
warfare
,
but
an
enemy
had
inaugurated
another
kind
of
naval
warfare
,
for
which
it
was
not
prepared
.
It
was
,
therefore
,
decided
to
withdraw
the
ships
until
they
should
be
prepared
for
the
new
kind
of
warfare
.
To
allow
ironclad
after
ironclad
to
be
disabled
and
set
adrift
,
to
subject
every
ship
in
the
fleet
to
the
danger
of
instantaneous
destruction
,
and
all
this
without
the
possibility
of
inflicting
injury
upon
the
enemy
,
would
not
be
bravery
;
it
would
be
stupidity
.
It
was
surely
possible
to
devise
a
means
for
destroying
the
seven
hostile
ships
now
in
British
waters
.
Until
action
for
this
end
could
be
taken
,
it
was
the
part
of
wisdom
for
the
British
navy
to
confine
itself
to
the
protection
of
British
ports
.
When
the
fleet
began
to
move
toward
the
Isle
of
Wight
,
the
six
crabs
,
which
had
been
lying
quietly
among
and
under
the
protection
of
their
enemies
,
withdrew
southward
,
and
,
making
a
slight
circuit
,
joined
the
repeller
.
Each
of
the
disabled
ironclads
was
now
in
tow
of
a
sister
vessel
,
or
of
tugs
,
except
the
Llangaron
.
This
great
ship
had
been
disabled
so
early
in
the
contest
,
and
her
broadside
had
presented
such
a
vast
surface
to
the
north
-
west
wind
,
that
she
had
drifted
much
farther
to
the
south
than
any
other
vessel
.
Consequently
,
before
the
arrival
of
the
tugs
which
had
been
sent
for
to
tow
her
into
harbour
,
the
Llangaron
was
well
on
her
way
across
the
channel
.
A
foggy
night
came
on
,
and
the
next
morning
she
was
ashore
on
the
coast
of
France
,
with
a
mile
of
water
between
her
and
dry
land
.
Fast
-
rooted
in
a
great
sand
-
bank
,
she
lay
week
after
week
,
with
the
storms
that
came
in
from
the
Atlantic
,
and
the
storms
that
came
in
from
the
German
Ocean
,
beating
upon
her
tall
side
of
solid
iron
,
with
no
more
effect
than
if
it
had
been
a
precipice
of
rock
.
Against
waves
and
winds
she
formed
a
massive
breakwater
,
with
a
wide
stretch
of
smooth
sea
between
her
and
the
land
.
There
she
lay
,
proof
against
all
the
artillery
of
Europe
,
and
all
the
artillery
of
the
sea
and
the
storm
,
until
a
fleet
of
small
vessels
had
taken
from
her
her
ponderous
armament
,
her
coal
and
stores
,
and
she
had
been
lightened
enough
to
float
upon
a
high
tide
,
and
to
follow
three
tugs
to
Portsmouth
.
