Complex sentence: Commodore Hopkins gave no signals during this time, so the fleet formed no battle line which resulted in a battle that Captain Nicholas Biddle of the "Andrew Doria" later described as "helter-skelter".
Split into simpler sentences: Commodore Hopkins gave no signals during this time, so the fleet formed no battle line. This resulted in a battle that Captain Nicholas Biddle of the "Andrew Doria" later described as "helter-skelter".