Mr. Joseph Casey, Fireman

1718
(Solicitor-General):  Where were you?
(Casey):  On the starboard side between the after end of the engineers’ quarters and the commencement of the second-class cabins.

1719
(Solicitor-General):  What happened?
(Casey):  There was another shipmate of mine and me looking at a passenger fixing a trunk up, and this shipmate says to me, “Joe, what’s that?”  I immediately looked to the forward end on the starboard side and I saw two white streaks approaching the ship; one seemed to be travelling quicker than the other.  At the beginning I though there was only one, but as they approached the ship they opened outwards and the after one seemed to strike the ship either forward or near the centre of No. 2 funnel, and a white flash came and an explosion.  There wseemed to be two explosions but there were like together.

1720
(Solicitor-General):  Have you any doubt from your experience that there were two torpedoes you saw at this time?
(Casey):  No, no doubt at all, because there were two streaks.

1721
(Solicitor-General):  I need not ask you questions which have been dealt with by other witnesses, but was this the last torpedo you saw, or not?
(Casey):  No.

1722
(Solicitor-General):  Tell the court what you saw next?
(Casey):  When we were getting ready to go down the rope to go over the side aft, there was the streak of a third torpedo coming from a diagonal direction.

1723
(Solicitor-General):  On what side?
(Casey):  On the starboard side.

1724
(Solicitor-General):  From starboard to port?
(Casey):  It was fired from the forward end on the starboard side, not the same as the others in a straight line, but in a diagonal line.

1725
(Solicitor-General):  Did that strike the ship?
(Casey):  No.