 Consequently, at 12.43 pm, "Yoshino" turned back towards the Korean coast and "Jiyuan" reached Weihaiwei in the morning of July 26.Neither the captain of "Kowshing", Englishman Thomas Ryder Galsworthy, nor anyone else on board the vessel was aware of the encounter fought at Pungdo.At about 8.30 am "Jiyuan", which was fleeing the battle, had passed "Kowshing", but for reasons unknown, the Chinese cruiser did not inform "Kowshing".