When the _Nuernberg_ left the line of German ships at one o'clock, it was the British cruiser _Kent_ that went after her, a vessel more heavily armed than the German ship, yet about a knot slower. But by hard work on the part of the engineers and stokers of the _Kent_ she was able, by five o'clock, to get within firing distance of the _Nuernberg_. By a strange trick of fate the _Kent_ was sister ship to the _Monmouth_ which had fallen victim to one of the _Nuernberg's_ torpedoes in the battle off Coronel. Here, too, was a duel with human interest in it. In their desire for revenge, the men of the _Kent_ made fuel of even her furniture in order to speed up her engines. Her 6-inch guns now began to strike the German ship, and soon a fire broke out aboard her. She could have ended the German vessel by keeping a fire upon her while remaining too distant to be within range of the _Nuernberg's_ 4-inch guns, but dusk was gathering and an evening mist was settling down upon the water. Consequently the _Kent_ drew nearer to her adversary. The firing of the _Nuernberg_ was then effective and more than twenty of her shells took good effect on the British ship. It was only through prompt action on the part of her crew that her magazine was kept from exploding, for a shell set fire to the passage leading to it. By seven o'clock in the evening the _Nuernberg_ was practically "blind," for the flames from the fire that was raging on her had reached her conning tower. A member of her crew hauled down her flag, and the _Kent_, thinking that the fight was over, came close to her. While within a few hundred yards of her, however, she was greeted with new firing from the German cruiser. But this ceased under a raking from the _Kent's_ starboard guns, and once again the flag of the _Nuernberg_, which had been run up on resumption of shooting, was hauled down. Members of her crew then had to jump into the sea to escape death from burning--the fire was quenched only when she went down at half past seven. The overworked engineers and stokers of the _Kent_ were rewarded for their hard work by being permitted to come on deck to watch the _Nuernberg_ go down, and all were soon engaged in helping to save the lives of the German sailors in the water. Just as the red glow of the sinking _Nuernberg_ was dying down a large four-masted sailing ship, with all sails set, came out of the mist, her canvas tinged red by the flames' rays. Silently she went by, disappearing again into the mist, a weird addition to an uncanny scene. Chasing the various units of the broken line of German ships had taken the British ships miles from each other, but after ten o'clock they began to reach each other by wireless signals and all made again for Stanley. It was not until the afternoon of the next day, however, that word came from the _Kent_, for her pursuit had taken her farther than any of the other British ships.