Fog bound duel off Cape Farewell
6th August 1942: A rare sequence of photographs illustrates the surface action between U-210 and the destroyer HMCS Assiniboine
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The U-boat war continued unabated. They were still mounting a serious threat to the Allied supply lines across the Atlantic. However, a process of attrition meant that more and more experienced U-boat crews were being lost - and the newly trained crews now putting to sea increasingly faced convoy escort ships that were refining their tactics and becoming ever more persistent.
U-210 had succeeded in getting out into the Atlantic and was within range of convoy SC-94, sailing from Sydney, Nova Scotia, to the United Kingdom, when she was spotted in the fog by the Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine under Lieutenant Commander Stubbs.
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The sequence of events was reconstructed from the interrogation1 of survivors, mainly Mueller, who took over the helm of U-210 when the bridge watch changed at 2000 on August 6:
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