The German ultimately came up, but he arose cautiously at the stern of the ship, at a point from which the guns of the _Dunraven_ could not bear. On the slim chance that a few men might be left aboard, the submarine shelled it for several minutes, fore and aft, then, to the agony of the watching Englishmen, it again sank beneath the waves. Presently the periscope shot up, and began moving slowly around the blazing derelict, its eye apparently taking in every detail; he was so cautious, that submarine commander, he did not propose to be outwitted again! Captain Campbell now saw that he had only one chance; the conflagration was rapidly destroying his vessel, and he could spend no more time waiting for the submarine to rise. But he had two torpedoes and he determined to use these against the submerged submarine. As the periscope appeared abeam, one of the _Dunraven's_ torpedoes started in its direction; the watching gunners almost wept when it missed by a few inches. But the submarine did not see it, and the periscope calmly appeared on the other side of the ship. The second torpedo was fired; this also passed just about a foot astern, and the submarine saw it. The game was up. What was left of the _Dunraven_ was rapidly sinking, and Captain Campbell sent out a wireless for help. In a few minutes the U.S. armed yacht _Noma_ and the British destroyers _Alcock_ and _Christopher_, which had been waiting outside the "prize ring," arrived and took off the crew. The tension of the situation was somewhat relieved when a "jackie" in one of the "panic" boats caught sight of his beloved captain, entirely uninjured, jumping on one of the destroyers. "Gawd!" he shouted, in a delighted tone, "if there ain't the skipper still alive!" "We deeply regret the loss of His Majesty's ship," said Captain Campbell, in his report, "and still more the escape of the enemy. We did our best, not only to destroy the enemy and save the ship, but also to show ourselves worthy of the Victoria Cross which the King recently bestowed on the ship." They did indeed. My own opinion of this performance I expressed in a letter which I could not refrain from writing to Captain Campbell: MY DEAR CAPTAIN: I have just read your report of the action between the Dunraven and a submarine on August 8th last. I have had the benefit of reading the reports of some of your former exploits, and Admiral Bayly has told me about them all; but in my opinion this of the _Dunraven_ is the finest of all as a military action and the most deserving of complete success.