By now, thanks to their unremitting exertions, the crew of the _Carmania_ had overcome the fire, but a new danger was already reported and necessitated prompt action on the part of her Commander. Smoke had been reported on the northern horizon, and soon afterwards four funnels appeared, the new comer being undoubtedly another enemy, probably summoned by wireless by the _Cap Trafalgar_. Crippled as she was, and with nearly a quarter of her guns’ crews and ammunition supply parties either killed or injured, it would have been the sheerest madness for the _Carmania_ to risk another action at that moment, and she accordingly increased her speed, shaping a course to the south-west, and steering by sun and wind, until she could assemble what was left of her shattered navigating gear. Afterwards it was learned that the enemy sighted was the _Kron Prinz Wilhelm_, who, on learning by wireless of the _Cap Trafalgar’s_ fate, decided that discretion was the better part of valour and did not approach any nearer. During the night the _Carmania_ succeeded in getting into touch with the cruiser _Bristol_, with whom she arranged a rendezvous for the next morning, and under whose care, and afterwards that of the _Cornwall_, she came to anchor near the Abrolhos Rocks at eight o’clock on the morning of the day after. Here, with the aid of the _Cornwall’s_ engineers, the worst of her holes were patched up, and with what navigating gear she could borrow, and in company with the _Macedonia_, the _Carmania_ set out for Gibraltar at 6 p.m. on September 17th. Well did she deserve, as she did so, the hearty cheers of the _Cornwall_, and the two accompanying colliers, and those of the old battleship _Canopus_ whom she passed early on the morning of the 19th. [Illustration: CHART-HOUSE AND BRIDGE OF THE “CARMANIA” AFTER THE FIGHT] She arrived at Pernambuco on the same afternoon, leaving there Captain Grant’s despatches for the Admiralty, and reached Gibraltar nine days later. Her re-fitting took several months, but she remained as an armed cruiser until May, 1916, when she was again restored to the Cunard Company’s service. Her casualties in this brilliant action amounted to nine killed or dying of wounds, and four severely and twenty-two slightly wounded. There were no Cunarders among the casualties. Besides other honours conferred upon participants in this fight, his Majesty the King decorated Captain Barr with the well deserved Companionship of the Bath, in recognition of his splendid services in what was to prove a unique action of the war at sea.