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Unlike the neutral Americans in the first incident, the only witnesses to the second attack were the German and British sailors present.

Oberleutnant zur See Iwan Crompton, after returning to Germany from a prisoner-of-war camp, reported that Baralong had run down the lifeboat he was in ; he leapt clear and was shortly after taken Baralong.

The British crew denied that they had run down the lifeboat.