The remainder of the hooks were properly attached to the rest of the tanks, the chains were screwed tightly up, and the tanks were pumped clear.

Then the tide rose; and before high water we had the great satisfaction of getting the body of the vessel under weigh, and towing her about a cable's length from her old bed.

At each tide's work she was lifted higher and higher, and towed into shallower water towards Belfast; until at length we had her, after eight days, safely in the harbour, ready to enter the graving dock,--not more ready, however, than we all were for our beds, for we had neither undressed nor shaved during that anxious time.

Indeed, our friends scarcely recognised us on our return home.
The result of the enterprise was this.

The clean cut made into the bow of the ship by the collision was soon repaired.