The boat bottomed out at . A Mate – Samuel Anderson – was fired through a torpedo tube to try to escape, but unfortunately drowned. The captain – Lieutenant Harold Boase – tried to flood the boat in an effort to escape through the fore hatch, but the fender jammed the hatch, so the crew was trapped.
The boat hit bottom at . A Mate – Samuel Anderson – was launched through a torpedo tube in an attempt to escape, but unfortunately perished. The captain – Lieutenant Harold Boase – tried to submerge the boat in order to escape via the fore hatch, but the fender obstructed the hatch, trapping the crew.