The _Smith_ destroyer lost both masts and a fireman overboard who was rescued after an hour when the cook swam to him with a line. The paint locker was stove in and the yeoman’s office washed out, which meant the loss of many painful hours of paper work. The vessel spent two weeks in dry-dock in Brest. The _Roe_ and the _Monaghan_ were nearer the coast, and although each lost a mast they scudded for shelter in time to avoid the worst of the blow. The _Flusser_ and the _Warrington_ were badly battered and had to lay off for repairs. The _Preston_ limped into _Lisbon_, sighting the _Corsair_ just outside the port, and the two ships remained there together until they could be made fit for sea again. That lively historian of the _Reid_, Seaman (later Lieutenant) Timothy Brown, added some bits of life in a storm which the crew of the _Corsair_ considered appropriate to their own unhappy hours: As the elements continued to harry us, I could notice a changing sentiment among certain members of the crew. Several expressed the opinion that she would soon break in two in the middle. It was only a question of time. Others were too far gone to have any opinion about anything, and these afflicted ones lay helpless, clutching at whatever they could gain a hold. They were attended by their close friends. Our lawyer clung to a table and scribbled on a pad. He was framing a poor devil’s will. A brave lad from the Middle West suggested that it might be well to throw out some ballast—too much water was flowing through the hatches to feel comfortable. He said we might spare a ton or two from the forward hold which was crammed with provisions. A deck-hand passed the buck to the engineering department, which he said was about to sink the ship with enough truck to outfit several auxiliary cruisers, including solder bars, sal ammoniac, bolts and nuts, brass unions, rat-tail files, tallow candles, and flake graphite. None of the engineering department people would give up a pound. The only volunteer was a seaman who said, if necessary, he could spare a guitar.