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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 The wreck of British trawler HMS Warwickshire, sun.....

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The story

The wreck of British trawler HMS Warwickshire, sunk by aircraft on 30 Apr 1940 off Trondheim, Norway, was raised and put into service. She would remain in German service until sunk by Soviet submarine S-56 on 19 Jul 1943.

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