Seaman first class Stephen Young
(click on picture about my visit with him)
"Quickly the water flooded in. We were buffeted about, twisted and turned by its strength. Then the dark waters closed over me as the ship came to rest- upside down on the bottom of the harbor."
"I heard Popeye Schauf call out "I can't swim! so long, guys, I can't swim! His voice echoed through the steel darkness of the handling room. I swam over to Popeye and grabbed whatever hair he had and helped him to stay afloat."
"Two or three bodies floated quietly in the water behind us. We left them there in the handling room where they had died."
seaman first class Stephen B. Young