Sinking of HMS Warwick
One of the warships commanded by Denys Rayner RNVR DSC* during the Battle of the Atlantic was torpedoed in the Bristol Channel. Just a day after taking up station at Plymouth, on 20 February 1944, Rayner was commanding HMS Warwick off Trevose Head when she was torpedoed, with the loss of 90 of her crew, by the submarine U-413 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Gustav Poel. Rayner was picked up with other survivors by the steam trawler Lady Luck skippered by Victor Crisp.
Sinking of HMS Warwick
One of the warships commanded by Denys Rayner RNVR DSC* during the Battle of the Atlantic was torpedoed in the Bristol Channel. Just a day after taking up station at Plymouth, on 20 February 1944, Rayner was commanding HMS Warwick off Trevose Head when she was torpedoed, with the loss of 90 of her crew, by the submarine U-413 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Gustav Poel. Rayner was picked up with other survivors by the steam trawler Lady Luck skippered by Victor Crisp.