HMS Warwick (D 25)
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| Name | HMS Warwick (D 25) | ||
| Type: | Destroyer (Admiralty V & W) | ||
| Tonnage | 1.100 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Hawthorn Leslie & Co, Hebburn-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | The Admiralty | ||
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| Date of attack | 20 Feb, 1944 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-413 (Gustav Poel) | ||
| Position | 50.27N, 05.23W - Grid BF 2169 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 160 officers and men (67 dead and 93 survivors). | ||
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| Notes on loss | At 11.37 hours on 20 Feb, 1944, HMS Warwick (D 25) (Cdr D.A. Rayner, DSC, RNVR) was hit aft by a torpedo from U-413 and sank in 4 minutes off Trevose Head, Cornwall. Three officers and 64 ratings were killed. The destroyer had been on submarine hunt together with HMS Saladin (H 54) and HMS Scimitar (H 21) in the Bristol Channel. | ||
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