As morning dawned and wore on to-day, the _Eber_ collided with the _Nipsic_ and then with the _Olga_, and, finally, was dashed by the huge waves, like a toy, upon the reef, and rolled over into deep water. Only five men struggled to shore and were saved. Other sad disasters occurred; and then, shortly before noon, the _Vandalia_ and the _Calliope_ were tossed perilously near together, and also toward the dangerous reef. In endeavouring to steam away, the _Vandalia_ collided with the _Calliope_, and was much damaged. Then, with splendid courage, Captain Kane determined to steam right away to sea—to remain would but risk another collision, or a wreck on the reef. Sea-room he must have at any cost! “Lift all anchors!” was the thrilling order, and then—“Full speed ahead!” Round swung the vessel’s head to the wind, and though the powerful engines were working “all they knew” to force the ship along, the steamer stood still, as if aghast at being asked to break through these tremendous waves. But she stood for a moment only. The superb engines began to tell; the quickly-whirling screw churned up the heavy water at the stern, and slowly the good ship made headway through the huge billows. They crashed over her stern and poured over her decks, as if in anger at her defiance. But on went the coal to her furnaces, and the thick smoke reeled off from the funnel in volumes. The strain quivered through every limb of the ship, but her captain kept her at it, and inch by inch she forced her way through the pounding seas. “This manœuvre of the gallant British ship,” says an eye-witness, Mr. John P. Dunning, of the Associated U.S. Press, “is regarded as one of the most daring in naval annals. It was the one desperate chance offered her commander to save his vessel and the three hundred lives aboard. An accident to the machinery at this critical moment would have meant certain death to all. Every pound of steam which the _Calliope_ could possibly carry was crowded on, and down in the fire-rooms the men worked as they never had worked before. To clear the harbour, the _Calliope_ had to pass between the _Trenton_ (an American warship) and the reef, and it required the most skilful seamanship to avoid a collision with the _Trenton_, on the one hand, or total destruction upon the reef, on the other. The _Trenton’s_ fires had gone out by that time, and she lay helpless almost in the path of the _Calliope_.” [Illustration: PROMENADE DECK OF THE “PARIS.”] But the dreaded collision did not take place. And as the _Calliope_ passed near to the _Trenton_, a great shout was given for the British vessel, and the Englishmen responded with a noble cheer. Captain Kane, who subsequently was appointed to the _Inflexible_, said afterwards: