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Updated: July 12, 2025
One morning the telegraph key began clicking, and presently the operator called, loudly: "One telegram for el Almirante, Don Senor Felipe Carrera!" There was a shuffling sound, a great rattling of tin scabbard, and the admiral, prompt at his spot of waiting, leaped across the room to receive it. The message was handed to him.
The Spanish vessels, as they dashed out of the harbor, were covered with the smoke from their own guns, but this speedily diminished in volume and soon almost disappeared. The fire from the rapid-fire batteries of the battleships appears to have been remarkably destructive. An examination of the stranded vessels shows that the Almirante Oquendo especially had suffered terribly from this fire.
'A long voyage is a restful thing, and I had time to get over the fatigue of the he seemed to pause an instant for a word; then he went on, 'the trouble, while I was on board the "Almirante Cochrane." Do you know they were quite kind to me on board the "Almirante Cochrane"? The old lady's delicate face flushed angrily.
They would put Juan Lepe among these last, but here was Juan Lepe, one only left of that thirty-eight. The boat approached. I saw the bared head, higher than any other, the white hair, the blue-gray eyes, the strong nose and lips, the whole majestic air of the man, as of a great one chosen. Master Christopherus Don Cristoval el Almirante!
Some stress of circumstance must have driven them, diable a quatre, through flood, mire and jungle. "O-he! Senor Almirante," called the large man. "Send to us your boat." The dory was lowered, and Felipe, with one of the Caribs, rowed toward the left bank. The large man stood near the water's brink, waist deep in the curling vines.
“The task of the battle-ships was well within their powers. It is not without reason that both the Oregon and the Texas are the pride of the nation as well as of their crews. “The Oregon and the Brooklyn had hurled a relentless fire at the flying Spaniards, and it had told on the Almirante Oquendo with increasing effect.
Jim then sent up a blue rocket to call the other boats away, for it was hopeless to attempt anything farther that night, and half an hour later he was rejoined, just as day was dawning, by the Almirante Cochrane launch, which was almost in a worse state than his own.
At 10.50 o'clock, when Admiral Cervera's flagship, the 'Almirante Oquendo, suddenly headed in shore, she had the 'Brooklyn' and 'Oregon' abeam and the 'Texas' astern. 'The Brooklyn' and 'Oregon' pushed on after the 'Cristobal Colon, which was making fine time and which looked as if she might escape, leaving the 'Texas' to finish the 'Almirante Oquendo. This work did not take long.
"Bien, milord, yo soy General del exercito, y V. sara Almirante de la esquadra." His allusion to the complicity of the Supreme Director I knew to be false, as His Excellency was anxious to do all in his power both for the squadron and his country; had not the Senate, on which he had conferred such extraordinary powers, thwarted all his endeavours.
Inside the harbour, caught like rats in a trap of their own making, lay the Spanish fleet under command of Admiral Pasquale Cervera, consisting of the armoured cruisers Cristobal Colon, Vizcaya, Almirante Oquendo, Maria Teresa, Admiral Cervera’s flag-ship; torpedo-boat destroyers Furor and Pluton.
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