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Final advice by Commander Chambliss: "Once aboard the rescue vessel, try not to make a damned nuisance of yourself. . . . If picked up by a destroyer or similarly small vessel, get below decks. Sure, you'd like to stay topside and see what's going on. But a destroyer that has taken aboard 600 or 700 survivors. . . is in a precarious state of balance...
...until sunset after the sixth attack. A TBF placed all its bombs right under the U-boat's stern. It went down at once, then popped up, hopelessly out of control. Once more it sank at a steep angle, then resurfaced. The crew poured out of the crippled vessel; 24 were taken prisoner. The next engagement of the carrier lasted 14 hours, from dusk to daylight. Twice again the escort carrier's planes struck. In the last attack four TBFs and two Wildcat fighters swooped in on the U-boat. The last of their depth bombs were direct...
...Miraculously, there were none but minor explosions, though oil sprayed over the men on the bridge. They cut loose rafts and abandoned her without panic; the last man to leave was the 49-year-old captain. Through an inches-thick layer of oil they paddled away from the sinking vessel. Thirty minutes after she was struck, she upended, hissing like a giant calliope, protesting through all her shattered structure, and sank...
...Scotland, in 1896, she was one of the finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...
Last week the Coast Guard announced that the 47-year-old Mayflower was getting a complete refit at Norfolk, would soon go to war again, this time as a convoy escort vessel...