This is what was said on the spot of the way the _Temeraire_ had done her work. 'I congratulate you most sincerely,' wrote Collingwood to Captain Harvey, on the 28th of October, 'on the noble and distinguished part the _Temeraire_ took in the battle; nothing could be finer; I have not words in which I can sufficiently express my admiration of it.'[113] This from a man so temperate in his language as Collingwood was at all times was indeed high praise. Her day's work at Trafalgar cost the _Temeraire_ in casualties exactly 123 killed and wounded; or as Captain Harvey put it: 'Killed, 47; badly wounded, 31; slightly wounded, 45--in all, 123.' Captain Busigny and Lieutenant Kingston of the Marines, one midshipman (John Pitts) and Mr Oades, the carpenter, were the officers killed; one lieutenant of the Royal Navy, the surviving lieutenant of Marines, a master's-mate and a midshipman, with the _Temeraire's_ boatswain, were the officers wounded. Forty-three more of the _Temeraire's_ men were drowned on board the _Fougueux_ and the _Redoutable_, in the storm after the battle. As everybody knows, all Nelson's Trafalgar prizes except four perished in the storm after the battle, or were set on fire or scuttled. Whose fault it was, or how it came about that Nelson's dying order to anchor immediately the battle was over, which would probably have preserved all the prizes, was set aside, we need not discuss. Both the _Temeraire's_ prizes were among the ships that were lost--the _Fougueux_ being wrecked a few miles south of Cadiz and the _Redoutable_ foundering in deep water. The _Redoutable_ foundered during the night of the 22nd, carrying down with her 13 of the _Temeraire's_ men. She was in tow of the _Swiftsure_, which had relieved the _Temeraire_ of her, when, about five on the previous afternoon, she made signals of distress. The straining of the dismasted hull as it pitched and rolled in the heavy seas had reopened the shot-holes below the water-line and the ship was filling. The _Swiftsure_ hove-to and lowered her boats, which in two trips brought off safely many of the prisoners and the wounded, and part of the _Temeraire's_ prize crew. Then, however, the attempt had to be given up. 'The weather was so bad and the sea so high,' that, in the words of the _Swiftsure's_ log, 'it was impossible for the boats to pass.' They were still, though, keeping the _Redoutable_ in tow, hoping she might live out the night, when, at half-past ten, all of a sudden, the prize foundered by the stern. The sinking was so sudden at the last that the _Swiftsure's_ men had no time to cast loose the tow-rope and had to chop it in two with axes. During the night a few of the _Redoutable's_ men were picked up floating on rafts that they had made, but upwards of 190 hapless fellows went down in the ship.