An enemy destroyer was seen in a sinking condition, having been hit
by a torpedo.

After the first violent onslaught into the mass of the superior
enemy the opponents lost sight of each other in the smoke by powder
clouds. After a short cessation in the artillery combat Vice
Admiral Scheer ordered a new attack by all the available forces.

German battle cruisers, which with several light cruisers and
torpedo boats again headed the line, encountered the enemy soon
after 9 o'clock and renewed the heavy fire, which was answered by
them from the mist, and then by the leading division of the main
fleet. Armored cruisers now flung themselves in a reckless onset at
extreme speed against the enemy line in order to cover the attack
of the torpedo boats. They approached the enemy line, although
covered with shot from 6,000 meters distances. Several German
torpedo flotillas dashed forward to attack, delivered torpedoes,
and returned, despite the most severe counterfire, with the loss of
only one boat. The bitter artillery fire was again interrupted,
after this second violent onslaught, by the smoke from guns and
funnels.

Several torpedo flotillas, which were ordered to attack somewhat
later, found, after penetrating the smoke cloud, that the enemy
fleet was no longer before them; nor, when the fleet commander
again brought the German squadrons upon the southerly and
southwesterly course where the enemy was last seen, could our
opponents be found. Only once more--shortly before 10.30
o'clock--did the battle flare up. For a short time in the late
twilight German battle cruisers sighted four enemy capital ships to