Mercantile Marines           

John McMahon, a seventeen-year-old crewman, was on the port side when the torpedo hit on the starboard. "It was a terrific bang, and the whole ship shook; there was a lot of smoke also. All the lights went out and we took a strong list to starboard. There was no real panic. I heard soldiers in the first moments of darkness shouting, 'Keep cool, no rushing, you'll get there."

2005 INFORMATION SOURCE

William Stevens Prince, "Crusade & Pilgrimage" 1986; page 26.