On the 25th the _Lapwing_ was sent on ahead to Bermuda to inform the authorities of the close advent of the dock. It was now arranged that as the _Terrible_ drew less water than any of the other ships, she should have the honour of piloting the dock through the Narrows—a narrow, tortuous, and shallow channel, forming the only practicable entrance for large ships to the harbour of Bermuda. On the morning of the 28th, Bermuda lighthouse was sighted, and the _Spitfire_ was shortly afterwards picked up, having been sent by the Bermudan authorities to pilot the squadron as far as the entrance of the Narrows. She also brought the intelligence that it had been arranged that the _Viper_ and the _Vixen_ had been ordered to pilot the dock into harbour. As they neared Bermuda, the squadron were met by the naval officer in charge of the station, who, after having had interviews with the captains of the squadron and of the _Bermuda_, rescinded the order respecting the _Vixen_ and the _Viper_, and the _Terrible_ was once more deputed to tow the _Bermuda_ through the Narrows. Just off the mouth of this dangerous inlet, the _Bermuda_ being in tow of the _Terrible_ only, the dock became uncontrollable, and would have done her best to carry Her Majesty’s ship to Halifax had not the _Warrior_ come to her aid, after the _Spitfire_ and _Lapwing_ had tried ineffectually to be of assistance. By this time, however, the water in the Narrows had become too low for the _Warrior_; the _Bermuda_ had, therefore, to wait until high water next morning in order to complete the last, and, as it proved, the most perilous part of her journey. After the _Warrior_ and the _Terrible_ had towed the dock through the entrance of the inlet, the first-named ship cast off. The dock once more became unmanageable through a sudden gust of wind striking her on the quarter. Had the gust lasted for only a few seconds longer, the dock would have stranded—perhaps for ever. She righted, however, and the _Terrible_ steaming hard ahead, she passed the most dangerous point of the inlet, and at last rode securely in smooth water, within a few cables’ length of her future berth, after a singularly successful voyage of thirty-six days. It says much for the naval and engineering skill of all concerned in the transport of this unwieldy mass of iron, weighing 8,000 tons, over nearly 4,000 miles of ocean, without the loss of a single life, or, indeed, a solitary accident that can be called serious. The conception, execution, and success of the project are wholly unparalleled in the history of naval engineering.