This, however, the old man sternly refused to do, and ordered his son to throw him overboard.
The nature of his wounds being such that he would have died if he had been moved, they deemed it best, after consultation, to leave him where he lay.

Accordingly, yielding to his reiterated order to abandon the ship, they left this most gallant seaman lying in his blood, and embarked in the boat as the _Nelson_ sank.
The submarine in the meanwhile concentrated her fire on the _Ethel and Millie_, and having eventually sunk her, made the survivors of the crew prisoners, and steamed away.
The crew of the _Nelson_ were rescued by a man-of-war after being in their boat for forty-four hours.
The second case occurred in the Adriatic.

On the night in question our drifter patrol in the Straits of Otranto was attacked by a force of Austrian light cruisers.

The drifters were each armed with a 3-pounder gun, and the light cruisers with 4-inch and 6-inch guns.

The drifters were, of course, quite unable to defend themselves.