See: According to a firsthand account of the events by Nathan Levy, a quartermaster on McDougal, published on 22 October in The New York Times, the destroyer steamed the 100 nautical miles distance to the lightship in three-and-a-half hours, arriving after German submarine SMU U-53 2 had stopped the Holland America Line cargo ship SS Blommersdijk 2 and the British passenger ship SS Stephano 2 .