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DescriptionHMCS Trillium Crowded with Survivors.jpg
English: On 22-23 February 1943, the corvette HMCS Trillium rescued around 160 survivors from three merchant ships torpedoed during the battle for westbound convoy ON 166. This view of Trillium, taken from the United States Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, shows the corvette crowded with a total of some 250 crew and survivors. In the foreground, one of Spencer's boats carries that ship's doctor across to Trillium to help tend to wounded mariners.
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