"Due to communications errors and a vaguely worded signal...the highly capable Commodore William Goodenough*, commanding the cruisers, broke off the action and the German ships vanished into the mists. *A commodore I've got a lot of time for, and whose name is about fair. I think Commodore Superlative or Commodore Aboveandbeyond would be pushing it, but, as I say, lot of time for the chap." - "Blinker" Hall, spymaster: the man who brought America into World War I