During this action, which reflected the greatest credit on our destroyers, several of our attacking vessels, owing to their having dropped back towards the rear of our line, were not in a good position to attack the enemy’s battle cruisers with torpedoes. The _Nestor_, _Nomad_, and _Nicator_, most gallantly led by Commander the Hon. E. B. S. Bingham in the _Nestor_, were able to press home their attack, causing the enemy’s battle cruisers to turn away to avoid their torpedoes. The _Nomad_ was damaged and forced to haul out of line before getting within torpedo range of the battle cruisers, but the _Nestor_ and _Nicator_ succeeded in firing torpedoes at the battle cruisers under a heavy fire from the German secondary armaments. The _Nestor_ was then hit, badly damaged by the fire of a light cruiser, and remained stopped between the lines. She was sunk later by the German Battle Fleet when that force appeared on the scene, but not before she had fired her last torpedo at the approaching ships. The _Nomad_ was also sunk by the German Battle Fleet as it came up, but this vessel also fired her torpedoes at the fleet as it approached. In both these destroyers the utmost gallantry in most trying circumstances was shown by the officers and men. It is gratifying to record that a considerable proportion of the ship’s company of both destroyers was picked up by German destroyers as the German Battle Fleet passed the scene. After completing her attack upon the battle cruisers, the _Nicator_ was able to rejoin her flotilla. The _Moorsom_ also attacked the enemy’s Battle Fleet and returned. In the meantime, the _Petard_, _Nerissa_, _Turbulent_ and _Termagant_ succeeded in firing torpedoes at long range (7,000 yards) at the enemy’s battle cruisers. For his gallantry on the occasion of this destroyer attack Commander the Hon. E. B. S. Bingham, who was rescued from the _Nestor_ and taken prisoner by the Germans, received the Victoria Cross. Meanwhile the engagement between the heavy ships had become very fierce, and the effect on the enemy battle cruisers began to be noticeable, the third ship in the line being observed to be on fire at 4.18 P.M., whilst our ships of the 5th Battle Squadron were also inflicting and receiving some punishment. The accuracy and rapidity of the fire from the enemy’s vessels was deteriorating at this period; our own ships were much handicapped by the decreasing visibility, due partly to the use by the enemy of smoke screens, under cover of which he altered course to throw out our fire. The flagship _Barham_, of the 5th Battle Squadron, received her first hit at 4.23 P.M.