In March 1942, the ship was adopted by the village of Queensbury in West Yorkshire.

[2] On 28 February 1943 the Liberty ship SS Wade Hampton was torpedoed by German submarine U-405 while sailing in a convoy from New York to Murmansk, Russia.

Survivors were picked up by Vervain and HMS Beverley near Greenland.

[3] On 20 February 1945 at 11.45 hours Vervain was escorting a homeward-bound convoy when she was sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat, U-1276 under Oberleutnant zur See Karl-Heinz Wendt, about 25 miles south-east of Dungarvan, Ireland, south of Waterford.

[4] In turn the U-boat, U-1276 was sunk with depth charges by HMS Amethyst.