The leading ship, the Caesar, instead of obeying, made the signal of inability and wore round.

The next ship, the Queen, also wore.

So (at 1.30 p.m.) Lord Howe set the example in the Queen Charlotte and tacked.

Pasley's Bellerophon followed him, and tacked also; the Leviathan tacked and followed her.

These three ships were the only ones to tack.