Out of the multitude of facts and incidents in the
heavy part of the battle we can choose only two for mention. First, We appalling suddenness with which the 'Queen Mary' and the other battle-cruiseis were lost. It seems that the magazines must have exploded. Secondly, the manner in which the Warspite ' went to the rescue of the Warrior,' as related by a correspondent of the Times. The 'Warrior' was lying helpless, her engines disabled, her magazines waterlogged, and her crew awaiting their end, when the Warspite ' dashed to the rescue :— " Recognizing in her their saviour, the 'Warrior's' men greeted the Warspito ' with ringing cheers. These were ungrudgingly answered from the battleship, which threw herself between the helpless ` Warrior ' and the German vessels that were battering her silent hull. Crash went a salvo from the Warspite's ' 15-inch batteries. A German ship got the full force of it and sank. Putting her helm over, the Warspite ' circled round the Warrior,' drawing on herself all the fire of the German ships, and replying to it with vigour and great effect. A shell damaged her steering gear ; still the Warspite ' held en. . . . Four times the Warspite ' circled round the 'Warrior' in this way, all the while punishing the enemy terribly with her great guns. Come back ; you are sacrificing yourself,' signalled Admiral :Beatty to the Warspite,' but, owing to her damaged steering gear, she could not obey the order. She could only hang on and fight, and she did this so sturdily, in spite of the heavy battering which she received, that by the time her consorts of the Dreadnought division had come up the German Battle Fleet was in full flight.'
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