The _Temeraire_ herself had a bad time of it in the storm. All Tuesday, the 22nd, the _Sirius_ kept her in tow, but it was so rough that little could be done on board towards refitting the ship or attempting to rig jury-masts or repair damages. On the 23rd the _Sirius_ was called off by signal to recover prizes adrift which the sortie that the refugee ships in Cadiz attempted that day was threatening. The _Africa_ was told off to take the _Temeraire_ in tow, but the storm came on worse than ever during the afternoon, and the _Africa_, whose badly damaged masts were threatening to roll over the side every minute, could do nothing but stand by. 'The state of the _Temeraire_ is so bad,' wrote Captain Harvey, that night, 'that we have been in constant apprehension of our lives, every sail and yard having been destroyed, and nothing but the lower masts left standing, the rudder-head almost shot off and is since gone, and lower masts all shot through and through in many places.' The _Temeraire_, however, managed to come through all safely, and she again held her own by herself throughout the 24th and all the next day. Unaided, she brought up in the end in safety off San Lucar, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir some 25 miles north of Cadiz, at seven on the morning of the 25th. Here the men stopped shot-holes above water, cleared away wreckage and completed the knotting and splicing of the damaged rigging and cleaning up of the ship, and got up jury-masts and lower yards:--five days' hard work. On the 30th of October, the _Defiance_ took the _Temeraire_ in tow for Gibraltar, where the ship let go anchor on the afternoon of the 2nd of November, twelve days after Trafalgar.