386 THE CANNONADE OF CHAP, iicknowledgment of the aid he had brought. He, ■^^"- however, brought down havoc upon his own ship. Her wheel was destroyed ; and she was set on fire by a shell. Lord George continued to stand in, and at length moored his ship on the starboard quarter of the Agamemnon. As the Bellerophon swung to her anchor she offered an occasion to the enemy ; and, the enemy promptly seizing it, she was swept by a raking fire. Her launch was struck by a shot and sunk ; she again took fire ; * and, a breeze springing up, her satellite steamer, the Cyclops, had no longer power to move her. Help was brought by the Spitfire; and at last, with a signal flying which told that she was on fire, the ship was towed out of action.f She lost 4 men killed and 15 wounded; amongst the last was Mr M. Foster, a midsliipman, whose skull was fractured. I rue Queen. The Queen, as we saw (Captain Mitchell), was hastening to take her part in the fighting of the detached squadron ; and Lyons, when he saw her stand in, and begin to engage, made her welcome, by signal, with the greeting of 'Well done. Queen!' but already the new supporter had come under the power of the Wasp, or the Telegraph Battery ; and
- Altogether slie was tlirec times on fire, but each time the
fire was quickly extinguished by her cvc-w. — Note to 2d Edition. + This, according to the logs of the two vessels, was subse- quent to the time when the Agamemnon hauled out, and it would thus appear that, with the exception of the Kodney and the steamers aiding her, the Bellerophon caine last out of ac- tion.— Note to 2d Edition. t He died. — Note to 2d Edition.
