“Carmania” sinking “Cap Trafalgar”
Captain Grant was unfortunately unable to be present, but in a letter read at the function he claimed that “this action was the only one throughout the war in which an equal, or as a matter of fact, a slightly inferior vessel annihilated the superior force.... I shall always feel proud of the fact that it was my great good fortune to command a ship in action in which the glorious traditions of the British Navy were upheld by every soul on board.”
Captain Barr, who retired from the Company’s service in 1917, said that the Captain of the Cap Trafalgar put up a very gallant fight. “I do not know his name,” he said, “but he is the only German I would care to meet.”
CHAPTER III
Carrying On
The lofty liners in their pride
Stem every current, every tide:
At anchor in all ports they ride.
The menace of the berg and floe,
The blindness of the fog and snow.