“Were any launched safely?”
“Yes, and one or two on the port side.”
“Were your orders promptly carried out?”
“Yes.”
“Was there any panic on board?”
“No, there was no panic at all. It was almost calm.”
“How many persons were on board?”
“There were 1,500 passengers and about 600 crew.”
By the foreman of the jury—“In the face of the warnings at New York that the Lusitania would be torpedoed, did you make any application to the Admiralty asking for an escort?”
“No, I left that to them. It is their business, not mine. I simply had to carry out my orders to go, and I would do it again.”