At length _Buttercup_ got her in tow, but there is nothing so hard to steer as a sinking ship, and the tow parted. At 5 p.m. the sloop again got her in tow, but it was a disappointing business with the water steadily gaining below and the Atlantic swell breaking over the after deck, and thus the ships went on through the night. At 2 a.m. on the Sunday _Farnborough_ suddenly took an alarming list and the water gained rapidly, so the crew had to be ordered into the boats once again. The sloop _Laburnum_, which had also arrived, was ordered to close her an hour and a half later, but just as Captain Campbell was walking aft off went one of the depth charges with such an explosion that _Buttercup_, thinking it was a submarine’s torpedo, slipped her tow. After remaining aboard _Laburnum_ until daylight, Captain Campbell went back to his ship, and then _Laburnum_ got her in tow. A course had been set for Bantry Bay, and as she approached she was an amazing spectacle, listing over to the extent of twenty degrees and her stern nearly 8 feet under water. However, the armed trawler _Luneda_ and the tug _Flying Sportsman_ had been sent out to her, and by their assistance she was brought up the fjord and beached at Mill Cove, Berehaven, by half-past nine that Sunday night. Next morning, and for long after, this very ordinary-looking steamer lay among a number of other wounded ships, a strange and impressive sight. _Farnborough_ had fought both submarine and adversity, and had won both times: still, had it not been for sound seamanship and her holds being packed with timber she would never have been saved. There was much work to be done and there were too few salvage experts and men to cope with the results of the submarines’ attacks: so for the present _Farnborough_ had to remain idle. Months later she was repaired temporarily, refloated, taken away from Berehaven and properly reconditioned, but she had ended her days as a warship. She has now gone back to the Merchant Service as a cargo carrier, and if you ever go aboard her you will find a suitable inscription commemorating her truly wonderful career. As for Commander Campbell, as soon as he had got his ship safely into Berehaven he was summoned to see his Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly. After that he was received by the King, who conferred on him the highest of all awards for heroes. No details appeared in the Press; only this announcement from the _London Gazette_: ‘The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to Commander Gordon Campbell, D.S.O., R.N., in recognition of his conspicuous gallantry, consummate coolness and skill in command of one of His Majesty’s ships in action.’ [Illustration: Q-SHIP “PARGUST” One of Captain Gordon Campbell’s famous commands.] [Illustration: Q-SHIP “SARAH JONES” This craft did not come into the service until about three months before the end of the war. Her alias was “Margaret Murray.” To face p. 198]