But as it dropped below the watery horizon it left the British
ships silhouetted against a clear outline. The _Canopus_ did not
get into the fight, and the greatest concern of the _Glasgow_ as
she steamed off was to warn the British battleship to keep off,
for of less speed than the German ships, and outnumbered by them,
her appearance meant her destruction. The _Glasgow_, later joined
by the _Canopus_, arrived in battered condition at the Falkland
Islands. The _Monmouth_, after the main action was over, was found
and finished by the German squadron and went down. Seventy shots
were fired at her when she lay sinking, on fire and helpless, and
unable to fire her guns. Germany had evened the score in the second
battle between fleets.
The _Dresden_ after the Falkland action took refuge in Fiordes
of Terra del Fuego and after being there for a couple of months
proceeded to the head of the Island of Juan Fernandez where she
was found by the _Glasgow, Kent_ and auxiliary cruiser _Orama_
and was destroyed.
Most remarkable had been the career of the German third-class cruiser
_Nuernberg_, which had joined the other German ships that went to
make up the German squadron which fought in this battle off Coronel.
This vessel, on the day after Germany and England went to war, was
lying near Yap, an island in the Pacific, that had been, until
captured by the Japanese, the wireless station of most importance
to the Germans in the Pacific Ocean.
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