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HMS Westcott

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    Destroyer Westscott was of WW1 vintage. On 16 Jan 1941, she picked up 143 survivors from the British passenger ship Oropasa that was torpedoed and sank by the German submarine U-96. On 2 Feb 1942, southwest of the Azores, she sank the German submarine U-581, which was the first sinking of a hos...

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