The bulwarks were stove in and splintered as the vessels rolled, and the rigging of the three ships became entangled.

The Genoese sprang on to the deck of Pisani's galley, with shouts of triumph, but they were met by the admiral himself, wielding a mighty battleaxe, and the survivors of his crew.
The combat was still raging when the Bonito sailed swiftly up.

Her sails were lowered as she came alongside, and she was lashed to one of the galleys.

But this manoeuvre was not performed without loss.

As she approached, with the Venetian flag flying at her masthead, the Genoese archers on the poop of the galley, who had hitherto been pouring their missiles among Pisani's men, turned round and opened fire upon this new foe.