“Tuesday, July 6, was the day of the first attempt, and one of the worst I ever had or am likely to have. We were at our stations from 3:45 A.M. till 4:45 P.M., and eleven hours of that were under fire. The engine-room people were not relieved the whole time, and they were down there the whole time in a temperature of 132°-135°! It was hot up in the top--but child’s play to the engine room.” SUCCESS On July 11 the second attack was made, but made in a very different manner from the first. Once more let us allow the same writer to complete the story: “We went to General Quarters at 10:40 A.M. and were inside the entrance by 11:40. How well we seemed to know the place! I knew exactly where the beastly field guns at the mouth would open fire and exactly when they would cease--as we pushed in, and so if their shots went over us they would land on the opposite bank among their own troops. Very soon came the soft whistle of the shell, then again and again--but we were nearing the entrance and they turned on the _Mersey_. They hit her twice, wounding two men and knocking down the after 6-inch gun crew--none was hurt, however. I spotted a boat straight ahead making across the river for dear life--they may only have been natives, but we fired the 6-inch at them till they leapt ashore and disappeared. “Up the river we went. I knew each creek, and almost each tree, and as before we blazed into them just before we passed. “We left the _Mersey_ at the place where we anchored last time in the hope that she would draw the _Koenigsberg’s_ fire and leave us a free hand. The _Koenigsberg_, however, fired one salvo at her and then for the rest of the day concentrated on us. She was plugging us for seventeen minutes before we could return her fire. The salvoes of four were dropping closer than ever if possible and afterwards almost every man in the ship found a bit of German shell on board as a souvenir. They were everywhere--in the sandbags, on the decks, round the engine room--but not a soul was even scratched!