ffect of good shooting between 8.20 and 8.30 o'clock particularly.
Several officers on German ships observed that a battleship of the
Queen Elizabeth class blew up under conditions similar to that of
the Queen Mary. The Invincible sank after being hit severely. A
ship of the Iron Duke class had earlier received a torpedo hit, and
one of the Queen Elizabeth class was running around in a circle,
its steering apparatus apparently having been hit.

The Luetzow was hit by at least fifteen heavy shells and was unable
to maintain its place in line. Vice Admiral Hipper, therefore,
transshipped to the Moltke on a torpedo boat and under a heavy
fire. The Derfflinger meantime took the lead temporarily. Parts of
the German torpedo flotilla attacked the enemy's main fleet and
heard detonations. In the action the Germans lost a torpedo boat.
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