Denbigh Castle
 

                                                      ATLANTIC - FEBRUARY 1945                                        
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Russian Convoys - There is still no let up for the Russian convoys. Although JW64 reaches Kola Inlet safely on the 13th with all 26 merchantmen, the arriving corvette "DENBIGH CASTLE" is torpedoed by "U-992" and becomes a total loss. Four days later on the 17th return RA64 is ready to set out. Just off Kola Inlet "U-425" is sunk by sloop "Lark" and corvette "Alnwick Castle", but later that day "LARK" is damaged by "U-963" and also becomes a total loss. Corvette "BLUEBELL" is then torpedoed by "U-711" and blows up with only one man surviving. Of the 34 ships with the convoy, one returns, one goes down to U-boats and on the 23rd, straggler "Henry Bacon" is sunk by Ju88 torpedo bombers, the last success of the war by German aircraft. The rest of the convoy arrives at Loch Ewe on the 28th after a voyage made even more difficult by violent storms typical of these northern waters.                                                                                            

photo courtesy of Danny Porte