FFL Sénégalais (T 22)
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| Name | FFL Sénégalais (T 22) | ||
| Type: | Destroyer escort (Sénégalais) | ||
| Tonnage | 1,300 tons | ||
| Completed | 1943 - Dravo Co, Wilmington, Pittsburgh | ||
| Owner | Free French Navy | ||
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| Date of attack | 4 May 1944 | Nationality:  French | |
| Fate | Damaged by U-371 (Horst-Arno Fenski) | ||
| Position | 37.49N, 05.39E - Grid CH 93 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | ? men (? dead and ? survivors). | ||
| Convoy | GUS-38 | ||
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| History | built as American USS Corbesier (DE 106) of the Cannon-class, completed as FFL Sénégalais (T 22) for the Free French Navy. 1952 reclassified as frigate (F 702), 1962 renamed Yser (F 702). 1965 sold for scrap to Walter Ritscher, Hamburg. | ||
| Notes on loss | In the night on 2/3 May, 1944, U-371 was spotted recharging her batteries on the surface off Djidjelli on the Algerian coast. The area was swamped with six escorts from the convoy GUS-38 and three aircraft squadrons. At 01.18 hours on 3 May, the U-boat managed to damage USS Menges (DE 320) with a Gnat in the stern. The other vessels hunted the U-boat until the early morning of 4 May when Fenksi had to surface his boat and save his crew, but at 04.04 hours he still fought back and also damaged the FFL Sénégalais (T 22) with a Gnat before scuttling the U-boat. | ||
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