Sinking
In the late evening of 9 December 1942 HMS Marigold was escorting convoy KMS.3Y, off Algiers, Algeria. The convoy was attacked in the late evening by three S.79 VTBs of the 105ยบ Gruppo AS (105th Torpedo group) led by Capt. Urbano Mancini. Marigold was hit by a torpedo at around 1515 hours and sank a short time later with 40 of her crew killed. Lt. James Alexander Smith Halcrow, RNR (age 35) had been her commanding officer since 25 April 1942 and was among those lost.
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