Having baled her out, he returned to the scene of the disaster, where he managed to pick up a fireman, who had been wounded in the head and was unconscious. He revived this man, and together they started rowing for land, although the fireman was not able to do much work. They were at sea in the dinghy for 24 hours, when they were picked up by a steamer, having rowed 30 miles. Through the sinking of the _Daleby_ 26 men perished. When about 8 miles south of Beachy Head on the 20th May, the British steamer _Tycho_ was torpedoed without warning and began to go down by the head. The order to abandon ship was given at 5.10 p.m., ten minutes after the ship had been struck, and was carried out without casualties. The vessel went down at 5.20. The crew then pulled towards the steamship _Porthkerry_, which had seen the explosion and was standing by about 200 yards away on the port beam. As the _Tycho's_ boats came alongside her, another torpedo was discharged by the submarine. This blew up one of the boats, killing the master and 14 men, and capsized the other boat. The _Porthkerry_ was abandoned, with eight casualties, the vessel going down in three minutes after being struck by the torpedo. The survivors from both ships were picked up at 7 o'clock that night by a small coasting steamer and landed at Newhaven at midnight on the 21st May. The British steamer _Clan Murray_ was about 30 miles south of the Fastnets on the 29th May when she was torpedoed without warning, being struck amidships on the starboard side. The boiler and engine-rooms were immediately filled with water, the vessel listed heavily to starboard and foundered within five minutes. The submarine then appeared and circled round the wreckage, taking the third officer and one other man prisoners. She then made off in a westerly direction. The survivors clung to floating wreckage for six hours before being picked up. Sixty-four men lost their lives; 12 were saved; two were taken prisoners. The sinking of the _Tycho_ and _Porthkerry_ is a conspicuous instance of German callousness. The U-boat commander waited until the _Tycho's_ boats were alongside the _Porthkerry_ before discharging his second torpedo, and thereby killed 15 men without the slightest excuse or necessity. He could have torpedoed the _Porthkerry_ before those life-boats were alongside her, but apparently he preferred that her sinking should be accompanied by loss of life. There seems to be no other explanation of his conduct.