At 22:30 on the night of 11–12 October 1940 she was on patrol in the English Channel, about 10 nautical miles south of the Isle of Wight, in company with HMS Listrac (former French armed merchant ship) https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?4684 , when she encountered five German torpedo boats; Falke, Wolfe, Greif, Kondor and Seeadler which had sailed from Cherbourg to sortie along the English coast.