" There was a flash, a roar and, for Hayes at least, an unwelcome surprise. The force of the blast lifted him clean off the deck and hurled him into the water, from which he emerged, concussed and bedraggled, minus his pipe, shorts and pants. March-Phillipps’s men were astonished by the spigot’s power. Not many weapons could relieve a man of his underwear. "

― Giles Milton , Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat