["He had suddenly seen the bow waves of a destroyer approaching at full speed to ram"]

["We were put down by a trawler at dawn"]

["The torpedo had jumped clean out of the water a hundred yards short of the steamer and had then dived under her"]

["A moment later there was a severe jar; we had struck the bottom"]

["As the dim lights on the mole disappeared, the ceaseless fountain of star-shells, mingling with the flashing of guns, rose inland on our port beam"]

["We hit her aft for the second time...."]

["The track met our ram"]

["In the flash I caught a glimpse of his conning tower"]

["The 1,000 kilogrammes of metal crashed down"]

["Good-bye! Steer west for America!"]