Tuesday, 1 December

Anti-submarine trawler JASPER (581grt, Ty/Lt T Hodson RNVR), escorting convoy PW.256 with escort destroyer GLAISDALE, ML.184 and anti-submarine trawler CORNELIAN, was sunk by German motor torpedo boat S.81 in the English Channel. Four ratings were killed, and Ty/Lt B Ewin RNVR and six ratings missing. Escort destroyer TYNEDALE departed Plymouth to investigate German motor torpedo boats in the area prior to the attack.