It’s hard to determine if it was good or bad luck that was in play on December 10th 1944. The facts are that the ship’s Captain fell and broke his leg. This mean’t the ship was immediately demoted from lead Destroyer to a lower class. This new classification placed her at the worst place in the convoy.

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