This was christened "the stalls" and seems to have been well patronized till half-past one when they went to Action Stations again. Falling out at twenty minutes past two, watch was resumed from the bridge, which then became known as "the upper circle." At five minutes to four tea was served in the gun-room, and, twenty minutes later, Action Stations were taken up again. At that time the _Leipzig_ and _Nürnberg_ were well in view, with the _Dresden_ almost out of sight on the horizon--the _Leipzig_ on the starboard bow, nearer at hand, and being engaged by the _Glasgow_, and a moment afterward by the _Cornwall_, and the _Nürnberg_ away to port and considerably more distant. Then came the order to pursue the latter, the _Leipzig_ being given a salvo or two in passing; and it was then that there began the race that was destined to become traditional in every engine-room of the navy. With no coal to spare, everything combustible was crammed into her long-suffering furnaces. Tables and chairs, officers' furniture, wooden companion-ladders, even planks from the deck, were knocked to pieces and thrust into the flames for the ultimate destruction of the _Nürnberg_. "The entire staff," afterward wrote one of her {80} engineer officers, "was doing its best, and, my word it was a best. We pushed her along, more, more, more. The revolutions of the engines at the first time of starting were more than the revolutions the dockyard could get out of her, and she was worked up gently bit by bit, easying down occasionally when things looked as if they were not going quite right, or when they threatened to do so. An anxious moment was reached when we got on every ounce of steam that the engines could take. We were just then going some sixteen revolutions a minute faster than the Admiralty full power, and also the designed power of 22,000 horse-power, some 5,000 horse-power more than we ought to have done. In times of peace we should have been court-martialled for this, but we came out top.... We were doing from 2-½ to 3 knots faster than the old _Kent_ had ever done before. We were doing over 25 knots 'full speed,' the highest ever attained being 22 knots."