[Pan_Yan]

The Captain then had this message passed to all positions: "You may think we are running away from the enemy, we are not, our chummy ship has sunk, the Glorious is sinking, the least we can do is make a good show, good luck to you all."

... we then came out of the smoke-screen, altered course to starboard firing our torpedoes from port side.

Does England have any such men left?

[henkster]

We saw the same courage with HMS Rawalpindi late last year. Royal Navy skippers were expected to fight their ships against any and all odds, and come the worst, to go down with them. We will see this repeated late this year and early next against Japan. It’s the old tradition carried over from the days of “wooden ships and iron men.”