It's always dangerous to trust a man's personal account of when something happened (especially when it's verbal). I know that from personal experience, don't ask me in which year I got my bike, please! [img]smile.gif[/img] I could probably guess, but there'd be margin of one or two years that would matter in WW2. [img]smile.gif[/img]

"Raiders", Hilfkreuzer, did of course operate all over the world and I think there were some around as late as 1943. However they wouldn't look like or be armed like a destroyer. For one thing they wouldn't have depth charges or any sort of ASW weaponry whatsoever.

I'm still not sure about any German DD ever crossing or actually finding itself in the middle of the Atlantic but will try to check on that. My position is still that they didn't have the range to do so, and no reason to do so either.

Ships to escort didn't really exist, and for raids other ships are far more suitable.

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