Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Vervain was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War. On 28 February 1943 the liberty ship SS Wade Hampton was torpedoed by U-405 while sailing in a convoy from New York to Murmansk, Russia. Survivors were picked up by HMS Vervain, SS Bayano and HMS Beverly near Greenland. On 20 February 1945 at 11.45 hours HMS Vervain was escorting a homeward-bound convoy when she was sunk by a torpedo from the U-boat U-1276, under Oberleutnant zur See Karl-Heinz Wendt about 25 miles south-east of Dungarvan, Ireland, south of Waterford.