Watching their opportunity, they brought their boat alongside the sinking ship and scrambled aboard. Then they took up the fight again. By great good fortune she had a donkey-engine on her upper deck, and the salvors succeeded in starting it up and getting the pumps working again. That donkey-engine proved their salvation, just enabled her to keep afloat. But it was touch and go all the time. These seven gallant men in the end brought the ship to Clovelly harbour and put her ashore on that stony beach right under the picturesque village. She was nicely sheltered, and the salvors were able to fit her with a standard patch before taking her to dry dock. Thus the salvors wrested a victory out of the very jaws of defeat. Several successful dramatists have staged a thrilling fight between divers, many a novelist penned vivid descriptions of similar encounters to make the hearts of his readers beat a little faster. Yet such struggles between real divers in the depths of the sea are so rare that it is doubtful if more than one authentic case exists. This historic fight between divers took place at the bottom of the Solent during the recovery of some of the relics from the _Royal George_. The two divers, Jones and Girvan, were keen men, proud of their skill as submarine workers, each a little jealous of the other. One day Jones came across a cannon buried in the sand and, being unable to deal with it, marked it for a future occasion. Divers as a rule are extremely chivalrous. They would scorn to take a mean advantage, and they would never think of breaking the rule that what one finds, the finder salves. Whether Girvan, coming on the cannon, thought it a new find that he was entitled to salve, or whether he deliberately made up his mind to try to salve the other diver’s find, is not known. All we know is that Jones, who had been working some little distance away, came on Girvan trying to get out the cannon. Naturally, Jones was indignant, and indicated to Girvan by energetic dumb show that the latter had no right to deal with the piece.