Congratulations now poured in from all parts of the world, and were promulgated by the Commander-in-Chief. The Governor of the Falkland Islands, the Hon. William Allardyce, C.M.G., visited the flagship and congratulated Admiral Sturdee, together with the whole of our squadron, in glowing terms on behalf of the colony. Admiral Sturdee issued an interesting Memorandum, which is given _in toto_, calling attention to the urgent necessity for completing the victory by running the _Dresden_ to earth. These messages are given in Part III. Casualties in any decisive modern naval engagement are frequently very one-sided, one fleet suffering enormous losses whilst the other escapes with comparative immunity. This battle proved no exception to this rule. In the British squadron, the _Invincible_ and _Cornwall_ had no casualties, though they both had a big share of hits. The _Carnarvon_ and _Bristol_ were untouched. The _Inflexible_ had 1 man killed and 3 slightly wounded. The _Glasgow_ had 1 man killed and 4 wounded through a single unlucky shot. The heaviest casualties occurred in the _Kent_, who had 5 men killed and 11 wounded, 3 of whom subsequently succumbed to their wounds; most of these were caused by the bursting of one shell. She was hit thirty-seven times, and went in to a much closer range than the remainder of our ships. The squadron, therefore, incurred a total loss of 10 men killed and 15 wounded, whilst the Germans lost some 2,260 men all told. The crews of their ships totalled 2,432 officers and men, and were estimated as follows: _Scharnhorst_ 872 _Gneisenau_ 835 _Nürnberg_ 384 _Leipzig_ 341 The prize bounty amounted to the sum of £12,160, to be divided amongst the officers and crews of the _Invincible_, _Inflexible_, _Carnarvon_, _Cornwall_, _Kent_, and _Glasgow_, being calculated at the usual rate of £5 per head. In the course of the Prize Court proceedings the following reference to the German Admiral Count von Spee was made in regard to his action at Coronel: "Whatever others might have thought of this twist of the lion's tail, it appeared that the German Admiral was under no delusion.... It was perhaps as well to put on record that the German Admiral, when he took his fleet into Valparaiso, refused to drink the toast of 'Damnation to the British Navy,' and apparently had a premonition that his end was very near." The prisoners of war were all sent home in the _Macedonia_ and the storeship _Crown of Galicia_, but not before Admiral Sturdee had given them to understand in the firmest possible manner that if any man was found tampering with the ship's fittings, or was discovered out of that portion of the ship allocated to his use, he would be very severely dealt with.