With 5-inch shells and machine gun fire engaging the attackers, "Jarvis" maneuvered between the heavy cruiser and one of the planes during the thick of the fight. As anti-aircraft fire consumed the plane, its torpedo exploded against "Jarvis" starboard side near the forward fireroom, stopping her dead in the water and killing 14 crewmen. Her crew jettisoned the port torpedoes and quickly brought under control the fires that followed the explosion. The destroyer towed her to shallow anchorage off Lunga Point; and, after the attack, she crossed "Ironbottom Sound" to Tulagi, where she transferred her seven wounded and commenced emergency repairs.