Word: torpedoed
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...torpedo had struck fair on the starboard side. No. 5 Hold filled at once. The Lehigh began to settle fast. The main topmast came down, carrying away the main radio antenna, so that Sparks thought his SOS was not transmitted. All hands manned the boats and pulled away while she sank. All four of the lifeboats were picked up by British vessels within 50 hours...
...Greer was lucky. Had a torpedo caught her fairly, she would almost certainly have foundered, for her World War I skin is thin...
History Made. Better fitted to take a blow from her natural enemy was the U.S.S. Kearny, a slim, 1,630-ton beauty with a battle speed of around 40 knots. Besides modern armament (including ten torpedo tubes, five 5-inch guns), the Kearny has the maximum in destroyer protection. Highly compartmented so that damage can be localized, she also has a stout double bottom to cut down torpedo damage to her inner skin...
...crew were "missing," presumably trapped in a ruptured watertight compartment. Barring a miracle, they were dead. Ten more of the Kearny's crew (13 officers, 177 men) were injured, two of them seriously. Navy men were not surprised. They had waited with forboding. They knew that when a torpedo hits a destroyer, somebody usually dies...
Soon it became obvious that the very move made to unite the country divided it. Labor and Nationalists, agreeing on essential war policies, fought bitterly on other issues. Labor thought Opposition members within the War Cabinet were using their influence to torpedo its hard-won privileges and experiments in socialization. Nationalists accused Labor of us ing the war to push socialization. This threatened to split the country wider at the general elections...