history · 18 February 1940 · 84 years ago
British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring (Commander Sydney Alan Cooper), whilst escorting Allied convoy HN12 from Norway, was sunk by German submarine U-23 (Kapitänleutnantm Otto Kretschmer) 40 miles east of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, killing 157.
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