 At over seventy years of age, and two years after he had sold the "Hannah Gumbs" and retired from the sea, Timothy signed aboard the S.S. "Hato," the Dutch-registered freighter that, according to "The Cay," was sunk on April 9, 1942, as an able-bodied seaman, in response to a call for volunteers that had been placed early in 1942.The cause was that of a German U-boat that had torpedoed the S.S."Hato."