Keywords: monochrome LC-USZ62-132627: Royal Navy (British) seamen onboard destroyer HMS Vanoc (H 33) preparing the possible 21” Mark IX torpedo, before loading the tube, August 16, 1941. Commissioned in August 1917, Vanoc served in World War I and World War II. Of note, she was part of the Allied team that sank German submarine U-392 in the Straits of Gibraltar on March 16, 1944. Following a collision with a Royal Navy trawler HMS Computator in January 1945 and the end of the war, Vanoc was scrapped. (2015/10/23). LC-USZ62-132627: Royal Navy (British) seamen onboard destroyer HMS Vanoc (H 33) preparing the possible 21” Mark IX torpedo, before loading the tube, August 16, 1941. Commissioned in August 1917, Vanoc served in World War I and World War II. Of note, she was part of the Allied team that sank German submarine U-392 in the Straits of Gibraltar on March 16, 1944. Following a collision with a Royal Navy trawler HMS Computator in January 1945 and the end of the war, Vanoc was scrapped. (2015/10/23). |