sentences:  "ML254" then began slowly to leave the harbour mouth, carrying 38 survivors of "Vindictive"s 55 crewmen huddled on deck, where they remained exposed to machine gun fire from the shore.As Drummond turned his boat seawards and proceeded back to the offshore squadron that was still engaged in an artillery duel with the German defenders, one of the missing launches, "ML276" passed her, having caught up with the lost cruiser at this late stage.Drummond called to "ML276"s commander—Lieutenant Rowley Bourke—that he believed there were still men in the water and Bourke immediately entered the harbour to search for them.