Greyhound 🎥 2020 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Allied convoy HX-25, consisting of 37 merchant and troop ships en route for Liverpool, enters the “Black Pit”, the Mid-Atlantic gap, where they will be out of range of protective air cover. The convoy’s escort consists of the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Keeling, radio call sign “Greyhound”, captained by Commander Ernest Krause of the United States Navy; the British Tribal-class destroyer HMS James, call sign “Harry”; the Polish Grom-class destroyer ORP Viktor, call sign “Eagle”; and the Canadian Flower-class corvette HMCS Dodge, call sign “Dicky”.

Krause is overall commander of the escort ships but, despite his seniority and extensive naval education, it is his first wartime command; the captains under him have been at war for more than two years. Three days into the “Black Pit”, high-frequency direction finding intercepts a German transmission and Greyhound detects a U-boat heading towards the convoy. The sub tries to slip under Greyhound, but Krause sinks it with depth charges. As they return to the convoy, another U-boat bearing an emblem of a grey wolf sinks a Greek merchant ship. Greyhound is also attacked, evading a torpedo, and receives reports of five other U-boats from the other escorts. The wolfpack is staying just out of firing range, waiting for nightfall when the escorts will have poor visibility.

That evening, the ‘grey wolf’ U-boat torpedoes an oil tanker and escapes Greyhound by using an underwater decoy device which deceives the escorts into expending their depth charges. Krause rescues survivors from the tanker before going to aid the other ships, resulting in the loss of another supply ship. The U-boat, identifying itself as “Grey Wolf”, taunts the convoy and its escorts via radio transmission. The wolfpack commences attack that night and sinks three more merchant ships. The next morning, down to just six depth charges, Greyhound joins Dicky and sinks one of the U-boats with combined surface broadsides.

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