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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA
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shot might at any moment send us to the bottom.

“Push off quickly!” shouted Kursel from the embrasure.

“Push off — push off — don't waste a moment — don't drown the Admiral!” bawled Bogdanoff, leaning over the side and shaking his fist at our captain.

“Push off — push off!” repeated the crew, looking out of the battery ports and waving their caps.

Choosing a moment when she was clear of the side, Kolomeytseff gave the order “Full speed astern.”

Farewell shouts reached us from the Suvoroff. I say from the “Suvoroff,” but who would have recognised the, till recently, formidable battleship in this crippled mass, which was now enveloped in smoke and flames?

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