...bodies were recovered from the ship,. The ship sank after the Leader L placed a distress call saying that a 45-foot steel hull plate had come loose and water was flooding into the hold. Rowlett said the four survivors recovered by his helicopter...

...Two men in a 20-foot boat pulled alongside and detonated a bomb that tore a 40-foot hole through destroyer's steel hull. The blast killed 17 sailors and injured 39, including Lorensen. "At first, I didn't know I was one of them...