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R.D. Oliver
R.D. Oliver
was a
Captain
in the
Royal Navy
, during
World War II
, and was commanding the
HMS
Devonshire
, a heavy
cruiser
, on
21 November
1941
when he was informed that codebreakers had determined that
German
U-boats
were going to be surfacing near him, to refuel from a
merchant raider
, the
Hilfskreuzer
(cruiser)
Atlantis
.
Devonshire
sunk
Atlantis
.
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