* * * * In what instance in the whole course of our naval warfare, have ships received equal damage in so short a time as in this extraordinary enterprise ?" In detailing the extent of this damage, we will take the ships in the order they descended.

The first had her wheel carried away, and her hull much damaged, but escaped with the loss of only three men.

A stone shot penetrated the second, between the poop and quarter deck, badly injured the mizzen-mast, carried away the wheel, and did other serious damage, killing and wounding twenty men.

Two shot struck the third, carrying away her shrouds and injuring her masts; loss in killed and wounded, thirty.

The fourth had her mainmast destroyed, with a loss of sixteen.