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Lucky escape from trapped U-boat

13th January 1942: Just one survivor from U-224 as the U-Boat war hots up

Jan 13
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The Flower-class corvette HMCS Weyburn. These small corvettes were at the forefront of the U-Boat war. Weyburn was lost in February 1943 when she struck a mine outside Gibraltar with heavy loss of life when her armed depth charges exploded as she sank.

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