 A flotilla of destroyers and monitors helped to break up the attack before "Queen" and "Implacable" arrived.Reports of an imminent German counterattack with armoured cruisers, which ultimately failed to materialize, led the British to send the battleships to guard against it in company with the Harwich Force.When it had become clear that the German fleet posed no threat, "Queen" and "Implacable" returned to the Channel Fleet.