After further delays they put out to sea in a boat, which began to leak badly.

It was a slow journey and in early poor weather the ship began to leak badly, taking on board nearly 50cm per hour.

All, however, went well until 3 o'clock in the morning when the engineer on watch reported that the vessel was leaking badly.

Leaking badly the boat was blown to 15 feet, and at once a heavy fire came from the forts, but the hull was not hit.

The vessel lost two sets of sails, had the bullworks stove, the foretop gallant mast was gone, and she was leaking badly.