Assiniboine and U-210

6 August 1942, North Atlantic, south-east of Cape Farewell

Canadian success; U-210 rammed and sunk

On 6 August 1942 the escorts of slow convoy SC 94 were fighting off the U-boats of the Steinbrinck pack in thick fog. The Canadian destroyer Assiniboine picked up U-210, on her first patrol, on radar and came on her on the surface at close range. For more than half an hour the two fought in and out of the fog patches, too close for the destroyer's main guns to bear at times, while the U-boat's gunners set Assiniboine's bridge on fire with their 20-mm cannon. Assiniboine rammed her twice and she sank; and her captain, Rudolf Lemcke, was among the six killed. One of the destroyer's crew was killed. The battle for SC 94 went on for five more days, and eleven merchant ships were lost.