Not to be outdone, and consistent with her reputation, the _Arethusa_ was also in at the death, and had in her turn loosed a couple of torpedoes at the _Blücher_ with terrific effect--one striking her aft and one forward, reaching her magazine and causing a violent explosion. It was the _Arethusa_, too, who subsequently embarked and brought home to port the majority of the _Blücher's_ survivors, the rescuers and rescued being alike bombed from the air by a German aeroplane that had appeared on the scene. Meanwhile the _Lion_, having pulled out of the line, not vitally injured, but unfit for further action, the _Tiger_, _Princess Royal_, and _New Zealand_ had continued the chase of the flying enemy, the _Indomitable_ having been detailed to attend to the _Blücher_. Round the wounded _Lion_, to protect her from submarine {98} attack--submarines had already been sighted a few minutes before--had closed one of our light cruisers and six destroyers, and, at half-past eleven, Admiral Beatty called the destroyer _Attack_ alongside, boarded her, and raced at full speed after his other three battle-cruisers. So fast was the pace at which the action was being fought that not only were these out of sight, but the _Blücher_, now in her death throes, was also below the horizon. With her guns tilted, as she listed there to port, and the "Engage the enemy more closely" signal still flying from her mast, the _Lion_ had been suddenly wiped off the slate, as it were, with what chagrin to those on board can be readily imagined. But for that unlucky shot, the Battle of the Dogger Bank might have been as complete a victory of its kind as that of the Falkland Islands, and it was only by a hair's breadth that the other three German battle-cruisers, lame and heavily damaged, contrived to reach harbour.