Three rockets were thrown up, immediately after, and the gun kept on the cliffs for that purpose was fired, to draw attention to the signal.

It might have been a minute ere the heavy ordnance of the Caesar repeated the summons, and the same signal was shown at her mast-head.

The Dublin was still so near that no time was lost, but according to orders, she too repeated the signal; for in the line that night, it was understood that an order of this nature was to be sent from ship to ship.
"Now for the Elizabeth!" cried Bluewater; "she cannot fail to have heard our guns, and to see our signals." "The York is ahead of her, sir!" exclaimed the boy; "see; she has the signal up already!" All this passed in a very few minutes, the last ships having sailed in the expectation of receiving some such recall.

The York preceded the ship next to her in the line, in consequence of having gone about, and being actually nearer to the rear-admiral than her second astern.

It was but a minute, before the gun and the lanterns of the Elizabeth, however, announced her knowledge of the order, also.
The two ships last named were no longer visible from the cliffs, though their positions were known by their lights; but no sign whatever indicated the part of the ocean on which the Dover was struggling along through the billows.