In her action with Fort Marabout the _Condor_ expended over nineteen and a half hundredweights of powder (a ton all but fifty-four pounds), and two hundred and one projectiles:--65 rounds of 7-inch shell, 128 64-pounder shells, and eight 7-pounder shells; besides 200 rounds of Gatling gun ammunition, 13 war-rockets, and 1000 rounds of Martini-Henry small-arm ammunition. When the gun-boats had finished their work Admiral Seymour made the signal of recall, and they returned, passing close to the _Invincible_ to their stations. Now it was that the celebrated signal to the _Condor_ was made. The little vessel was passing the flagship, from on board which the _Invincible's_ men were cheering her enthusiastically, when the Admiral on the quarter-deck turned to his flag-lieutenant, Lieutenant Hedworth Lambton,--the future captain of the _Powerful_ and the man who saved Ladysmith,--and said, as if musing to himself, 'I should like to tell them something.' Lieutenant Lambton made a suggestion, and within less than a minute, the flags went up at the _Invincible's_ mast-head making the words, 'Well Done, _Condor_!' That is the story of the _Condor_ at Alexandria. The day ended for her with covering the landing-party sent ashore at the close of the bombardment to spike the guns of Fort Mex. * * * * * The story of the _Condor_ alone, of all the ships at the bombardment of Alexandria, has been told. For one reason or another, what the little gun-boat did in the action appealed specially to people at the time, and attracted universal attention. It was, of course, largely a matter of opportunity--the seizing of an exceptional chance for an effort of individual daring. All at Alexandria did well, and the _Condor_ had the best of the luck. In fairness, a few words must be also said of others of the ships present on the occasion, and of the part that they individually took in the fighting.