Assiniboine Maneuevers to Ram U-210
In August 1942, destroyer HMCS Assiniboine, a member of escort group C-1, was assigned to the protection of convoy SC-94 sailing from Sydney, Nova Scotia, to the United Kingdom. SC-94 suffered repeated attacks from a wolf pack of U-Boats and 11 out of its 33 ships were torpedoed and sunk.
In the afternoon of August 5th, HMCS Assiniboine and two corvettes are ordered to help six stragglers rejoin the convoy but it is already too late for merchant ship SS Spar, hit by a torpedo, a column of smoke billowing from its hull. HMCS Assiniboine attempts in vain to find the attacker. On August 6th, U-210 is sighted on the surface of the foggy sea and the chase starts for good.