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| | Denys Rayner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In October 1925, he joined HMS Eaglet, the Mersea Division [1] of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve [2] as a part-time midshipman with time to pursue his interest in exploring the rocky coast of the Western Highlands in a small boat of his own design. |
 | | In October 1943 he was given command of HMS Warwick (D25), surviving her sinking off Trevose Head [5] on 20 Feb 1944 when she was torpedoed, with the loss of 90 of her crew, by the submarine U-413 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Gustav Poel [6]. |
 | | Rayner's DSC is announced in the London Gazette [7] on 1 Jan 1940, for the "hard and perilous task of sweeping the seas clear of enemy mines, and combating submarines" while commanding the trawler Loch Tulla. |
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