up 19 survivors from the Norwegian tanker Sandanger, which had been torpedoed and sunk on 12 May by in the North Atlantic. She remained with the escort group until October when she began a refit in Halifax that lasted until December, Kootenay rejoined the group upon completion of the refit. The ship was reassigned to the 11th Escort Group in May 1944 in preparation for Operation Overlord. The group was tasked to protect Allied shipping in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay and Kootenay, together with the destroyer and the corvette , sank in the English Channel south of Brighton on 7 July 1944. Together with Ottawa and the destroyer , the ship sank in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle on 18 August. Two days later, the same ships sank in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest. Kootenay was extensively refitted between 2 October 1944 and 27 February 1945 at Shelburne Naval Dockyard and resumed anti-submarine patrols in the Channel in April after working up. After V-E day, she was used as a troop transport between Newfoundland and Quebec City until she was placed in reserve at Sydney, Nova Scotia, on 26 October. She was broken up for scrap in 1946. Notes Footnotes References External links HMS Decoy on Uboat.net HMCS Kootenay on Uboat.net HMS Decoy/HMCS Kootenay on Naval-History.net R.Smg. Argonauta, by Admiral (ret) Attilio Duilio Ranieri, Italian Navy Italian Submarines Lost in World War II Ships of the Royal Canadian Navy C and D-class destroyers 1932 ships Ships built in Southampton World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom Canadian River-class destroyers Canadian River-class destroyers converted from C and D-class destroyers Ships built by John I. Thornycroft & Company