Another interesting report related to this incident appears in the Wells Journal 21 May 1915.
Collision with a Steamer.
Captain Sutherland, of the steamer Collairnie, which has arrived at Plymouth from Blyth, stated on May 8th, when off the Northumbrian coast, about 3 miles from the Coquet, he struck a submerged object which he believes to have been a submarine. The shock brought the crew hurrying from their quarters to the deck, and oil was seen rising to the surface of the water. Captain Sutherland said that when the fog cleared about half an hour later they saw right ahead the steamer Queen Wilhelmina, which had been torpedoed by a submarine, the crew having taken to their boats. He went to the Queen Wilhelmina, and when about an hour later his vessel drifted over the spot where the collision occurred oil was still rising to the surface, there being a large patch about a hundred feet long by some twenty feet wide.
[think it's more likely he hit the SS 'Don' under the surface. We know now the sub survived and carried on]
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