While all this held the stage the real work of the Raid went forward.
Shortly after Vindictive threw her first Death or C squad on to the Mole, the first "blockship," the old cruiser Thetis thrust her nose round the end of the Mole making for the inner harbour. She smashed through the booms. Promptly the guns on the Mole swung round io play on her.
Thetis drove on, returning fire. From both sides, Mole and shore, the bat-She was holed
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