Excerpt from the book of Tom Nagorski, Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack, Hachette Books, 2006.
(Nagorski based his book on a collection of various personal accounts from survivors of the attack)
Evacuees and the causes for German naval attacks on civilian ships during World War II
Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack