Chronology of World War II
Tuesday, August 22
HMS
Bickerton
Got the Second Torpedo
The HMS
Bickerton
was refuelling from the HMS
Nabob
when
Nabob
got hit. HMS
Bickerton
got the second torpedo from the German submarine
U-354
on August 22, 1944 in the Barents Sea. A Canadian destroyer came back to help and the German submarine dived. The Canadian destroyer rescued the
Bickerton
crew that was alive and then sent HMS
Bickerton
to the bottom as she was hit too bad to save.