| Byron was killed in the second world war aged only 35, lost when his ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Wrath. |
| The first ship sunk by a German submarine in our coastal waters was torpedoed in this area. |
| Many Allied ships were torpedoed during World War 2 by the dreaded German U-Boats, which actively patrolled up and down the Firth of Forth. |
| The ship was torpedoed off County Donegal and the book describes the heroic and partly successful rescue attempts. |
| As bad luck would have it, nine German U-boats stumbled across the manoeuvres and torpedoed the ships, sinking two ships and damaging a third. |
| She was torpedoed while in ballast off Ireland and abandoned, but did not sink. |
