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According to Tony Bridgland ," Herbert screamed, ' Cease fire!

' But his men's blood was up.

They were avenging the Arabic and the Lusitania.

For them this was no time to cease firing, even as the survivors of the crew appeared on the outer casing, struggling out of their clothes to swim away from her.

There was a mighty hiss of compressed air from her tanks and the U-27 vanished from sight in a vortex of giant rumbling bubbles, leaving a pall of smoke over the spot where she had been.

It had taken only a few minutes to fire the thirty-four shells into her.

" Meanwhile, Nicosians crew were cheering wildly from the lifeboats.

Captain Manning was heard to scream, " If any of those bastard Huns come up, lads, hit ' em with an oar!