[Majestik 909]

0850 hours - 15 seconds run time - torpedo impacts near foremast with large wster column - huge secondary explosion below decks- part of bow blown away - fires erupt - ships begins sinking rapidly by the bow - lifeboats put away immediately

10 degrees left rudder - closing on remaining tanker and freighter at about 50 degrees - 900 meters and closing at about 17 knots combined speed - stern tube reloaded - only bow tube #2 available for firing

0852 hours - plot solution on far tanker - 3 torpedoes - 2.5 degree spread - magnetic - fire at 437 meters - torpedo speed 30 knots - 15.4 meters per second - run time to impact - 8.5 seconds

0853 hours - three impacts in rapid succession - down periscope - freighter passes over us - slow to 1/3 - up periscope - swing to 165 degrees - plot solution with stern tubes target makes abrupt course change to port

0855 - up periscope - tanker is sinking - starboard rail submerged - heavy fires visible - large secondary explosion below decks - masts collapse - all back 1/3 and then ring up all stop