But in December, while escorting ON 153, the convoy came under attack, and three ships were sunk.
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B7 was involved in the battles for convoys ONS 20 and ON 206, ON 207 and ON 208, during which period nine U-boats were destroyed.
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After several convoys had been escorted without loss, B7 covered HX 231 in April 1943.
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In 1944, aged seventeen he joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor and served on the North Atlantic Convoys, on the Flower-class corvette, HMS Loosestrife.
Ranging farther up the east coast of Africa, U-198 sighted convoy DKA-21 on 6 August 1944 and attacked, sinking the 7,295 GRT British motor merchant vessel Empire City east of Mocímboa da Praia, Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique).