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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA

narrow opening of the jammed door out on to the after embrasure, and were just proceeding to fasten him to the raft, when Kolomeytseff did, what a man does only once in his life, and then when inspired. My readers who are landsmen will not realise all the danger of what we were to attempt, but sailors will easily understand the risk. Kolomeytseff brought his vessel alongside and to windward of the mutilated battleship, out of whose battered gun ports stuck her crippled guns, and from whose side projected the broken booms of her torpedo-nets.[1] Dancing up and down on the waves the torpedo-boat at one moment rose till her deck was almost on a level with the embrasure,

  1. ↑ It was impossible to come up on the leeward side, because of the smoke and flames.
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