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For the remainder of 2 August Nelson's ships made improvised repairs and boarded and consolidated their prizes.

Culloden especially required assistance: having finally dragged his ship off the shoal at 02: 00, Troubridge found that he had lost his rudder and was taking on over of water an hour.

Emergency repairs to the hull and fashioning a replacement rudder from a spare topmast took most of the next two days.

On the morning of 3 August, Nelson sent Theseus and Leander to force the surrender of the grounded Tonnant and Timoléon.

The Tonnant, its decks crowded with 1, 600 survivors from other French vessels, surrendered as the British ships approached while Timoléon was set on fire by her remaining crew who then escaped to the shore in small boats.

Timoléon exploded shortly after midday, the eleventh and final French ship of the line destroyed or captured during the battle.