Atlantic Conveyor. Our weapon systems locked onto both the missiles and tracked them all the way in but they were unable to engage them because they were out of range. She was on fire within minutes of being hit and it was getting dark we were told to get in as close as we could and pick up people in liferafts. We picked up a life raft with about 24 in while we were doing this about five floated past, they looked dead a couple had put there survival suits on wrong and were floating feet up.
Hmmmm..... When my mates arrived back off the Conveyor they told me that they had been told / briefed when boarding to put their survival suits over their lifevests and they thought this was wrong and decided to put the vest over the suit, I do now wonder reading that, if that is what happened to those poor souls, my mates all made it back..