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"There was a terrific explosion aboard the ship, the magazines went. I saw the guns go up in the air just like matchsticks — 12" guns they were — bodies and everything. She was beginning to settle down. Within half a minute the ship turned right over and she was gone. I was 180 foot up and I was thrown well clear of the ship otherwise I would have been sucked under. I was practically unconscious, turning over really. At last I came on top of the water. When I came up there was another fellow named Jimmy Green and we got a piece of wood, he was on one end and I was on the other end. A couple of minutes afterwards some shells came over and Jim was minus his head so I was left on my lonesome."<ref>Farmer. Recording made by the BBC in the possession of the Imperial War Museum. [http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryMain.php&TN=Uncat&SN=AUTO5800&SE=3108&RN=76&MR=25&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=1&XP=&RF=allResults&EF=&DF=allDetails&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=1&ID=&MF=WPENGMSG.INI&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=17182&NR=0&NB=3&SV=0&BG=0&FG=0&QS= Recording 4096] | "There was a terrific explosion aboard the ship, the magazines went. I saw the guns go up in the air just like matchsticks — 12" guns they were — bodies and everything. She was beginning to settle down. Within half a minute the ship turned right over and she was gone. I was 180 foot up and I was thrown well clear of the ship otherwise I would have been sucked under. I was practically unconscious, turning over really. At last I came on top of the water. When I came up there was another fellow named Jimmy Green and we got a piece of wood, he was on one end and I was on the other end. A couple of minutes afterwards some shells came over and Jim was minus his head so I was left on my lonesome."<ref>Farmer. Recording made by the BBC in the possession of the Imperial War Museum. [http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryMain.php&TN=Uncat&SN=AUTO5800&SE=3108&RN=76&MR=25&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=1&XP=&RF=allResults&EF=&DF=allDetails&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=1&ID=&MF=WPENGMSG.INI&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=17182&NR=0&NB=3&SV=0&BG=0&FG=0&QS= Recording 4096.]</ref> | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
Revision as of 21:32, 22 November 2010
"There was a terrific explosion aboard the ship, the magazines went. I saw the guns go up in the air just like matchsticks — 12" guns they were — bodies and everything. She was beginning to settle down. Within half a minute the ship turned right over and she was gone. I was 180 foot up and I was thrown well clear of the ship otherwise I would have been sucked under. I was practically unconscious, turning over really. At last I came on top of the water. When I came up there was another fellow named Jimmy Green and we got a piece of wood, he was on one end and I was on the other end. A couple of minutes afterwards some shells came over and Jim was minus his head so I was left on my lonesome."[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Farmer. Recording made by the BBC in the possession of the Imperial War Museum. Recording 4096.
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