Escort Carrier HMS Searcher ploughing through rough Atlantic weather, 1943 - precarious F4F Wildcats on deck.
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Heavy seas

At 16.12 hours on 27 April 1941 the unescorted British motor merchant ship Beacon Grange (Master Alfred Byford Friend) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-552 south of Iceland. Two crew members were lost. The master, 73 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by the Belgian trawler Edouvard Anseele, transferred to HMS Gladiolus (K 34) (LtCdr H.M.C. Sanders, DSC, RNR) and landed at Londonderry, Northern Ireland. 


Merchant ship sunk

British search and rescue seaplane Supermarine Walrus, 276th Squadron of the British Royal Air Force comes to the aid of pilots downed in the English Channel. - In 1943. 
