FOOTNOTES:
[15] A few days later I learned through an English naval officer that the wireless boat, when off Kerry Head, i.e. just after we weighed anchor, had sent an urgent wireless message to Fastnet. The admiral in command there at once sent out a whole swarm of auxiliary cruisers and destroyers against us, about thirty vessels altogether. These boats, by virtue of their great speed, were in a very short time able to form a cordon from Fastnet to beyond the northern outlet from Tralee Bay. So that we should have been caught in any case, no matter what course we had taken.
[16] The English papers stated later, on the authority of authentic(!) reports, that 'the captain of the Bluebell, on account of the heavy seas, was unfortunately unable to launch a boat and send a prize crew on board the Aud.' I wish to state emphatically, in contradiction, that there was neither wind nor sea at the time.