"Both torpedoes missed the but by the smallest margin. The making high speed, swung with full left rudder toward the submarine. At five minutes past nine o'clock a third torpedo was fired at the convoy, apparently from another submarine, about 200 yards ahead of the first. It approached from the broad on the beam, also making a surface run at about the same range as the first two, and missed.
"But now the ship was in sight, some four miles distant, ready to relieve her convoy, made full headway on signal, 'Make all speed to us; submarine in sight;' and searched in the vicinity of the ship, while the ship, too, followed the sub's course. The first wake tended east.
The first wake tended east.
The ship's crew, but in ten minutes lost itself among the whitecaps. The second and smaller ones led westward, irregularly, as if depth charge was dropped at its end, but a half hour's search found proof of nothing. The ship herself by quick and efficient handling.
The story of the sinking of the Obuasi—where she arrived long after the deed—shows the defective functioning and poor marksmanship of German torpedoes. The reports to the same effect. At half-past ten o'clock on the morning of the 13th she picked up in her sea area two boats and 23 survivors of the Greek steamship Charilaos Tricoupis." 