HMS Vimy at Boulogne



HMS Vimy – Entering the port at the same time as HMS Keith, she came under the same withering fire from German ground forces. She had taken on board some 700 troops when her commander, Lieutenant-Commander Donald, was mortally wounded by a German sniper firing from the Hotel Imperial. She returned to Dover with minor damage.

During the evacuation of Dunkirk, Vimy rescued 2,976 troops. From 1941 she became a long-range escort vessel and was highly successful in the role, damaging the Italian submarine Luigi Torelli in 1941, and participating in the destruction of U-162 and U-187 in 1942 and 1943, respectively. She was scrapped in 1948.

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