Ordeal by Water - I Survived when my Destroyer Sank, by C.P.O. H. Hammant | 31 May 1916 | Episode 118
Published on 31 May 1916
The author of this chapter, who was Chief Petty-Officer on board the destroyer H.M.S. Fortune during the battle of Jutland, tells in most vivid detail his experiences when that gallant little ship, facing insuperable odds, was sent to the bottom by German shell fire.
C.P.O. Hammant was one of thirty-five men who clung to floating rafts, of whom only seventeen were finally rescued.