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Suddenly a torpedo ripped into the tanker's hull on the port side. Ten minutes later another direct hit was scored from starboard. In something like 14 minutes Captain Harold Hansen and his men (save two, who slipped from sight) were struggling with lifeboats and life rafts in the chilling, oil-drenched water. A third, final torpedo struck again from port side. The 9,577-ton tanker canted drunkenly but did not entirely sink. The sub, surfaced after the third shot, made no attempt to pick up survivors. A second officer insisted that his raft was fired on "five...
...sharp heeling over of the ship flung me sliding down the starboard side into the sea. Hundreds of officers and seamen plunged into the water with me. Anderson had reached the starboard railing a little to the right of me. I heard him shout something to an officer as I slid into the sea. I never saw him again...
...Almost immediately, it seemed, we began to list, and less than a minute later there was another jar of the same kind and same force, except that it was almost precisely the same spot on the starboard...
...began to list alarmingly to starboard-"at an angle suggesting a motor car with both wheels on one side off." On the flight and hangar decks mechanics and pilots worked frantically in an effort to launch the ship's planes, 60 Swordfish torpedo-carriers and Skua dive-bombers...
...steamed along in a convoy last week, her 65,000 square feet of flight deck glistening under the Mediterranean sun, she seemed unsinkable. Men on the off watch were washing up for tea. Suddenly there was a crash amidships to starboard; all over the ship the lights went out. Every man knew that the Ark's luck-insurance had lapsed. A torpedo had found...