From the Captain’s Report:. . . increasing speed and at the same time making smoke . . .
BACK on the bridge, Jerningham looked round him to see that there had been no radical change in the situation during the short time of his absence. There were the minutest possible dots on the horizon below the Italian funnel smoke which showed that the Italian fleet was now actually in sight. A new string of flags was breaking out on the halliards of the flagship.
The Captain knew this was the moment. The Admiral had led them round until they were properly stationed with regard to the wind, which now blew in a line from them to a point ahead of the Italians—that blessed wind, of such a convenient strength and from such a convenient quarter—and he had timed his arrival in this situation at the very m
