 201 crew members, 29 gunners and five naval and 131 service personnel were rescued by , , , and the British .The latter ship had been in Convoy KMF-1 for Operation Torch (the invasion of North Africa).On 19 November 1942, "U-413" was attacked by a British Lockheed Hudson aircraft with five bombs and was damaged so severely that she had to return to a new base - Brest in occupied France.