The ship got off a radio message, and two fighter planes from an Escort carrier with the convoy arrived on the scene, after much difficulty in taking off in the stormy seas, but the German planes had already gone. It was near nightfall when the attack ended and so the rescue ships had to wait until daylight, causing the survivors to have to spend all night in the boats or on rafts, on a stormy sea with temperatures way below zero.
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