Heading Overseas

I left to go overseas from Halifax with a ship, the Awatea. It was about 1:30 in the morning. All of a sudden the hammock started to shake and the mast ends falling off the shelves and Frenchmen talking so fast, that I was in with them and I couldn’t understand what was happening. So the life alarm come on and we had to get up to the top deck and the lifeboats were coming out, putting them down the side. So then, during this we see a destroyer cut across in front of us and it went straight up and it was hit and it was sunk. And that was destroyer Ingraham, 125 lives lost. And att that time, our ship was hit by torpedo and it put a hole in the front and we turned around to go back to Halifax.