| Entry Text: | RAYNER, D. A. Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic, by Commander D. A. Rayner, edited by Captain S. W. Roskill. 250, [vi]p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1955.
He served in the trawler Loch Tulla in an A/S role at Scapa at the start of the war and in late 1940 took command of the new corvette Verbena. She served in the Atlantic then moved to Freetown early in 1942. After a spell with the Eastern Fleet he took command of Shikari in the North Atlantic. Nine months later he took over Warwick, in which he was sunk. He at once moved to Highlander, but soon took over 30EG in Pevensey Castle where he stayed until taking a shore appointment in 1945. A good story. |
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