Convoy Attacks - Men in the Water

Interviewer: Did you ever come under attack, when you were in a convoy? Or any of the other ships in the convoy be attacked?

Well, well oh yes. We've lost ships yes, yes. And, you know, there was some ships probably, when sunk in the convoy with, without us knowing it, because if the visibility was poor. And if you was in the first column and one over, and at the night time he could be torpedoed and, and very often, you'd hear depth charges and that being dropped and probably a ship could be torpedoed and you wouldn't know anything about it. But, sometimes there was . . . it's very touching when you, a ship ahead of you that gets torpedoed and you got to sail through the fellows in the water . . . But you can't stop.

Interviewer: Why was it that you weren't allowed to stop?

You're in a convoy, there's other ships coming up behind you and you would, if you stop, you're a sitting duck then.