Around midnight little had been achieved and the fleets disengaged, but stayed within sight of one another. Around 7 o'clock on May 26 the Swedish force attacked with Uggla's second squadron in the lead, the two fleet sailing side by side while exchanging gunfire. According to the master gunner on "Kronan" Anders Gyllenspak one of the allied admirals, the Dutch Philip van Allemonde, sailed too close in his flagship "Delft" and received "a few tough shots with bar shot" by the heavy artillery on "Kronan" "so that the beakhead went completely asunder, and then the entire ship's side, and finally the stern, so that one could drive a horse and carriage through it". The heavy damage forced Allemonde to move his flag to "Gideon" and disengage himself from the fighting.