 12 reached her lifeboat and five were saved from the water by motor patrol boats, but nine men were lost, mostly from hypothermia or drowning.SS "Crayford" was a 1,209 GRT collier built by Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in 1911.On 13 March 1918 she was crossing the North Sea from Methil in Scotland to Christiania (now Oslo) in Norway with a cargo of coke when the German submarine torpedoed and sank her about off Skudesnes with the loss of the chief engineer.