It was on May 5th, 1917, at 7.30 p.m., while _en route_ to Avonmouth from New York, that the _Feltria_ was torpedoed without warning about eight miles south-east of Mine Head off the Irish coast. A very heavy sea was running at the time. No 1 boat was capsized during launching, and No. 4 boat blown to pieces by the explosion of the torpedo. Boats Nos. 2, 3, 5, and 6 were successful in clearing the ship’s side. Most of the crew were in boats Nos. 3 and 5, the captain and chief steward being alone in No. 2 boat, which had also been damaged by the explosion. The last boat away, No. 6, contained the Chief Officer, Second Officer, Purser, and three sailors, and it was this boat that the submarine, coming to the surface, ordered alongside. Having obtained particulars as to the _Feltria_ and her cargo, she then left but stopped to pick up Mr. Stott, one of the _Feltria’s_ engineers, and returned towards the lifeboat. From her deck, he was then assisted into the water. The _Feltria’s_ Quartermaster, Mr. Burt, with great courage, jumped into the water to meet him, and helped him to the boat’s side, where he was taken on board in a very exhausted condition, while huge breakers were washing over the little boat itself. Of the boat containing the Captain, Captain W. G. Price, and Chief Steward, nothing more was seen, their lives being lost, and by midnight, three other members of the _Feltria’s_ crew in No. 6 boat had died from exposure and exhaustion, one of the victims being Mr. Stott himself. The remaining five in this boat were picked up early on Sunday morning by the _S.S. Ridley_ and landed at Barrow; twenty other survivors were landed at Queenstown; but out of a crew of 69 no less than 44 lost their lives, 17 dying from exposure in the lifeboats. The _Flavia_ was the more fortunate in that the whole of her crew was saved, when early on the morning of August 24th, 1918, she was sunk off the Irish coast while on a voyage from Montreal to Bristol. Her commander, Captain E. T. C. Fear, had been below resting at the time, but the Officer in charge had kept the situation well in hand, and _H.M.S. Convolvulus_, standing by, picked up the survivors from the boats, landing them safely in Ardrossan. [Illustration: THE “DWINSK” SETTLING DOWN AFTER BEING TORPEDOED] [Illustration: SURVIVORS FROM THE “DWINSK” AFTER EIGHT DAYS IN THE LIFEBOAT]