position by bombs aimed at Black Watch. Black Watch and Senja were also sunk. This was the last sinking of a U-Boat by the Fleet Air Arm, and the final air-raid of the war in Europe. Searcher was sent to the Far East as part of the British Pacific Fleet but arrived in mid-August as the war ended. Commanding officers Return to the US Navy Searcher was returned to the US Navy under the terms of the Lend-Lease arrangement on 29 November 1945 and was listed for disposal on 7 February 1946. Merchant Service The decommissioned escort carrier was sold to J & A T Vatis, a Greek shipping company, and renamed Captain Theo in 1952. In November 1961, she encountered and rescued 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault, who had been adrift at sea in a cork raft for four days after surviving a mass murder aboard the and the subsequent scuttling of the ketch by the murderer. The ship was sold again in 1966 to the Chinese shipping magnate Tung Chao Yung, becoming Oriental Banker. Fate Oriental Banker was scrapped at Kaohsiung in Taiwan, commencing on 21 April 1976. Notes The Attack on 'Black Watch (Harald Isachsen, Harstad, 2009, - in Norwegian) Type C3-S-A1 ships of the Royal Navy Ships built in Seattle 1942 ships World War II aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom Attacker-class escort carriers Cargo ships of Greece