54 in train, hurled a K-gun and a depth charge stowage rack overboard, bent the starboard propeller shaft, flooded the after engine room, cut off all electrical power, flooded a magazine and put the ship in a 12-degree list to port. A quick muster showed 11 men missing, one officer and six men injured, and a man at the battle searchlight platform fatally burned by steam. One sailor at the starboard K-gun was blown overboard, and was picked up the next morning by . The torpedo explosion in Beattys vitals broke her back at about frame 124. It left the port side of the main deck awash from the break of the forecastle to about mount 54 and only 30 inches of freeboard on the starboard side. As a result, the ship slowly settled aft. While a bucket brigade valiantly attempted to bail out the flooding compartments, Beattys sailors jettisoned practically everything from ready ammunition to her searchlight and smoke generator. Through a mistake of haste, even the towing cable went overboard as well. Hopes of saving the ship flickered for the next four hours, as Beatty battled for her life. More and more stations were secured to release men for damage control tasks until only a bridge detail and crews on two 20 mm guns remained at battle stations. Around 1900, her sailors placed her boats and rafts in the water. Forty minutes later, Beatty transferred her wounded to . As the list increased, her crew continued abandoning her until around 2230, when the last group left the ship and reached the rescue vessel, . After breaking in two, Beatty sank at 2305 on 6 November 1943. An estimated 25 German aircraft, many equipped with glider-bombs, took part in the raid, and sank two merchantmen in addition to Beatty. Awards Beatty received three battle stars for her World War II service. References navsource.org: USS Beatty hazegray.org: USS Beatty World War II destroyers of the United States World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina 1941 ships Gleaves-class destroyers of the United States Navy Maritime incidents in November 1943 Destroyers sunk by aircraft Ships sunk by German aircraft