On 2 March 1942, "Ikazuchi" rescued the remaining 400 odd survivors who were still in the water from the Royal Navy cruiser (some of whose survivors had been rescued on 1 March) and the destroyer , both ships having been sunk the previous day in the Second Battle of the Java Sea between Java and Borneo. The survivors had been adrift for some 20 hours, in rafts and life jackets or clinging to floats, many coated in oil and unable to see. Among the rescued was Lieutenant (later Sir) Sam Falle, an officer aboard "Encounter", who would go on to become a British diplomat.