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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA

the line, but the stubborn fight was not yet at an end!

Alongside of me I recognised an officer of the Oslyabya, and asked him what had actually caused his ship to sink?

Waving his arm in a helpless sort of way, and in a voice full of disgust, he jerked out: “How? it's not very pleasant to remember. Absolutely no luck, that's what sunk her. Nothing but bad luck! They shot straight enough — but it wasn't shooting. It wasn't skill either. It was luck — infernal luck! Three shells, one after the other, almost in the same identical spot — Imagine it! All of them in the same place! All on the water line under the forward turret ! Not a hole — but a regular gateway: Three of them penetrated her together. She

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