The _Alexandra_ came out of action after the bombardment of Alexandria with twenty-four hits from shot or shell on the hull outside the armour-plating, and with several dents in her armour, one of her funnels damaged, and her rigging a good deal cut about. Most of the enemy's shots, fortunately, had been aimed too high.[123] The _Invincible_ (Captain R.H. More-Molyneux), on board which ship Sir Beauchamp Seymour had his flag for the day,--the _Alexandra_ was really his flagship, but he had removed into the _Invincible_ a short time before because of her lighter draught in order to enter the harbour,--had also numerous dents in her armour near the water-line, and the unarmoured parts of her hull had holes through it in several places. Her part in the fighting was for most of the time at anchor off Fort Mex, and the precision of her firing was enthusiastically applauded by the officers of the American ships who watched it from the offing. It was from the _Invincible_ that the landing-party of four officers and twelve men--all volunteers--went off, towards the close of the action, to disable the guns of Fort Mex. The duty was an extremely dangerous one. There was no means of knowing what troops the enemy might not have under cover close behind the fort. To effect their landing the little party--the officers were Lieutenants Barton Bradford and Poore, Flag-Lieutenant Lambton, and Major Tulloch of the Welsh Regiment (Military Staff Officer to the Admiral)--had to swim through the surf. No opposition, however, met them, and after bursting the guns with charges of gun-cotton the party returned on board without a casualty. Less is on record about what took place on board the other ships. All did their duty, and it was not their fault that no chances of special distinction came their way. The _Superb_[124] (Captain T. Le H. Warde) was hit badly near the water-line, just above the armour-belt, by a shell that shattered a hole in the hull 10 feet long by 4 feet wide. One shot made a hole, 10 inches across, in the fore part of the ship near one of her torpedo-ports, and another a hole, a foot across, a little aft of her battery; besides which her armour was dented and her foremast shot through. The _Sultan_ (Captain W.J. Hunt-Grubbe, C.B., A.D.C.) had an armour-plate on the water-line dented and 'started,' four boats damaged, and one funnel shot through. The _Penelope_ (Captain St. G.C. d'Arcy-Irvine) was hulled eight times, and one of her guns had its muzzle chipped. The _Temeraire_ and _Monarch_ (Captains H.F. Nicholson and H. Fairfax, C.B., A.D.C.)--though the value of the work they did and the way they were handled were second to none--came out of action with little or no damage to report. * * * * *