Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 158
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[Page 158]
stopped there till the ship became more habitable.
Two days later we were off N York again and resumed our exciting life of chasing merchantships.
One night we were signalled by the St Paul that she had lost a lady passenger overboard and for the once we turned ourselves into a palace of lights while we scoured the seas for the body. Several people on board swore they saw her but the search lights revealed nothing and boats crews searched the ocean for hours but nothing happened. Meanwhile the St Paul have nonchalantly withdrawn and soon afterwards we packed up too.
Another evening we were sitting in the wardroom just after dinner when the gunnery lieutenant yelled down the hatch "Commander. I think we are going to be hit shall I close watertight doors". We all rushed for lifesaving collars & made for the deck to see a huge liner glide past our stern at sixteen knots. As a sailorman said "Blime Bill you could a spat on her"