Show THE IOWA story of the fart thin ship took in the flight fight told by crept I 1 vans vair sir 1 I have the honor to make the following report first on tho the rooming morning of july 3 w while bile the crew was at quarters for sunday inspection th leading vessel of the spanish squadron was wan sighted coming out ot of tio harbor barbor bignal ships coming out I 1 was immediately hoisted and a gun gua fired to attract attention this was at ata 9 31 second the position of this vessel at tho the tinie time was tho the blockading station third after aig helne the lepaine vi vessel assel the infanta maria teresa it was observed that she aha was being fol lowed by the three remaining vessels of the fleet the vizcaya cristobal colon and almirante oquendo the mo ted at a speed of eight or ten knots which was increased as an they cleat ed the it arbor harbor entrance they a distance of about 1 y aids beewen the roil fourth rth v on sighting the leading vessel the iowa headed headd d toward the leading spanish iSpa niah ship at 0 40 the an fn at shot was fired from this ship tit at a di distance stanLe of 0 about 0 varda I 1 kill 11 licu it v was its act cetonia tain that the maria mann leresa ou would i ass abeal of us tit the e helm was N as put to th the starboard aid I 1 d and the starboard bi bio adside delivered at a range of 2 TOO yards 1 he ha helm was then put to pot poi it and the ship headed across tho the buia of the second ship and as the bile drew ahead the holm helm was arrin ai aln pit put t to star boud d and she received in i the full weight of our starboard broadside at a range of about 1800 yards iho 1110 iowa was again headed off with wi ali port helm for the tha third time and it as a she lie appi thi the bel helm in was put to lie starboard aid until our course was approximately that of the spanish ship chip jn in this position with a range of 1400 yard the fire of the alie entire battery including the thenaid r fire alro guns was poured into the ene ship sixth about 10 0 clolk cloi k the enemy a to I 1 cdo boit destroyers furor and elal on were observed to have left the tha harbor and to be following the spanish on As boon as they wera nvere discovered the secondary battery of this chip was turned on them while the main battery continued to engage the Viz caa oquendo and morin maria teresa the file fire fi om the main battery of this ship when the tha range wag nas below 2500 yat maids ds was most effLe effective tive and desti octive and after a continuance of this fire for perhaps twenty minutes it was noticed that tho the marla maria Ter teresa esmand and oquendo were nere in flames baines an and d were being headed for the beach their colors were struck about 1020 10 20 and they beached bea clied about eight miles west of santiago seventh about the tho same time the alre of this vessel 1 together with that odthe of the gloucester and another small vessel became so destructive that oneff one of the torpedo desti destroyers tho the pluton was sunk and the furor was so much il damaged that she was wag run on the rocks eighth after having passed at 10 35 the oquendo aud and the maria leresa estt on fire and ashore this vessel continued to chasa and flie upon tho the MARIA MAMIA vizcaya until 10 30 36 when a signal to cease firing was sounded on board it having been discovered that vizcaya had struck her colors ninth at I 1 11 I 1 the iowa ioba a arrived in the tha vicinity of the vizcaya ayn and sent boats to rescue her crew our boats rescued a large number of the all ship aps fps a company tenth about 11 30 the new york passed in pursuit of the cristobal colon which was waa about to escape from the oregon brooklyn and texas eleventh tte received on from the vizcaya capt eulate tho the commanding officer petty officers r I 1 Z CAPTAIN ROBLEY roeer Y D EVANS evana commanding the iowa and men of whom thirty two were wounded also five deato bodies which w N ere immediately buried with honors due their grade twelfth thie thi ship was struck la in the hull on the starboard side during the early part of tho the engagement by two projectiles of about six inch ea es calibre which fortunately were not of serious importance two or three other projectiles of small calibre struck about tho the upper pait of 0 the th ship no officer or main was injured during the tha eng engagement I 1 cannot express my admiration for my magni magnificent fl crow crew so long as tho the enemy hallowed fallowed fall owed his big ing flig fl ig they fought like ilka american seamen but when tho the flag came down they were na as gentle and tender as american women in con com clu blou sir air allow me to congratulate youl yon on the complete i victory by houi fleet very respectfully 1 M R D captain U 5 N amr |