She would have had the additional renown of sweeping through the heads of Port Philip, in the track followed by the first ship which ever entered the Port, the Lady Nelson, but that about 7 a.m. yesterday morning, the weather, in strict obedience to. the over-night prophecy of the Government meteorologist, developed into a thick foggy atmosphere. Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, with Captain A. Easton, the pilot, who went over to N.Z. to bring the big ship across, found that he was more helpless than he would have been had he been bringing the illustrious heir-apparent in' the cockleshell Lady Nelson, for he was brought to a standstill altogether. The fog was so thick that the eye could not pierce it for a distance of more than 50 yards, Then she began to do what she would not have done with a couple of _fire-vomiting Derfilingers to stand up to, she began to scream like a lost lioness, or rather like a lioness which had lost her cubs, for it was the cubs that the great helpless ship, with her six 15-inch guns, each weighing 98 tons, needed in her extremity.
About 7.30 a pilot-boat groped its way alongside the Renown, and the pilot shouted as he circled round the ship, Clearer inside." The Admiral made another attempt to reach the Heads, but was stopped about 8 o'clock by -the fog a second time, and then he sent a wireless to the cubs to grope their way out and to relieve him of his Royal freight. The destroyer Anzac picked up this message as she was lying near the inside of the Heads, and, immediately acted upon it. She took with her the
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