“_Invincible_ and _Inflexible_: In Port William. “_Carnarvon_: In Port William. “_Cornwall_: In Port William. “_Glasgow_: In Port Stanley. “_Bristol_: In Port Stanley. “The _Kent_ was at once ordered to weigh, and a general signal was made to raise steam for full speed. “At 8:20 A.M. the signal station reported another column of smoke in sight to the southward, and at 8:45 A.M. the _Kent_ passed down the harbour and took up a station at the entrance. “The _Canopus_, Captain Heathcoat S. Grant, reported at 8:47 A.M. that the first two ships were eight miles off, and that the smoke reported at 8:20 A.M. appeared to be the smoke of two ships about twenty miles off. “At 8:50 A.M. the signal station reported a further column of smoke in sight to the southward. “The _Macedonia_ was ordered to weigh anchor on the inner side of the other ships, and await orders.” Here the signal, it will be observed, says “a four-funnel and two-funnel man of war.” The ships were probably end on when they were seen, and in the _Nürnberg_ there was a considerable gap between the after-funnel and the two forward funnels. Seen from a point a little off the direct keel line, she would seem therefore to have two funnels only. Port William and Port Stanley are two inlets with a tongue of land between them, and opposite this tongue of land is the channel to the sea. Port Stanley is in the more southerly division of the harbour, which is also the larger of the two. _Canopus_ was anchored to the eastward of the town of Port Stanley, so that her guns could fire over the low-lying land between her and the sea. The land rises to the north as it creeps round towards the mouth of the harbour, and on this higher land there was an observation station where arrangements had been made by which the fire of _Canopus_ could be directed out to sea at any squadron that threatened to attack. The reader is therefore to imagine the _Macedonia_ lying in the outside mouth of the harbour; _Kent_ anchored in the channel half way between _Macedonia_ and where the harbour divides Port Stanley to the south and Port William to the north; with _Inflexible_, _Invincible_, and _Carnarvon_ anchored in line in Port William; the _Bristol_ and _Glasgow_ in the southern bay, with Port Stanley behind them to the westward, and _Canopus_ behind them to the east.