My grandfather (and namesake) David Boag Anderson was the captain of the SS Benmohr when it was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Africa on the 5th of March, 1942. I had always known my grandfather's side of the story through my father, but it was revelation when in 2004 Google led me to identify the U-boat concerned and to these forums - [uboat.net]

I followed up with a visit to the historian of the Ben Line company at the time, a Captain A M Watters who started out as a deck boy with my grandfather. He accessed the archives and allowed to see my grandfather's account of the incident, written in his own hand. He kindly allowed me to take a photocopy of the document. The account has some discrepancies from the U-505 logs, though trying to remember the exact details of such a traumatic event would be difficult - I don't make any claim that this is the "true" version of events. I noted that he thought the attack was by a submarine pack rather than a lone submarine here: [uboat.net]

To commemorate this event, the full transcript of his account (the original was written in his own hand) is posted below. If anyone would like a scan of the photocopy of the original, please feel free to message me.