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Discrepancy

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The USS Herring is described here as having sunk the German submarine U-163, but www.uboat.net reports that U-163 was sunk by the Canadian corvette HMCS Prescott.

Wikipedia's page for the Flower class corvette also states that U-163 was sunk by the Prescott.

70.101.124.112 01:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is discussed in Navy Department Communiqué No. 549, October 23, 1944, which is quoted at USS HERRING (SS-233) -- Battleship Park, Mobile AL - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com. "The Alden-McDonald score does not include the German submarine U-163, which is usually credited to the Herring; their analysis shows that the U-Boat was operating in a different area and was sunk instead by the Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Prescott on March 13, 1943." Kendall-K1 (talk) 19:13, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]