"Perth" sank a straggler from another convoy before the main convoy was spotted at 08&colon;47. A fourth straggler regained the convoy on 15 October. All known SX Phoenicis variables in globular clusters are blue straggler stars. On Christmas Eve "U-65" encountered the steam tanker , a straggler from convoy SLS-60. On 4 July she attacked the Norwegian steamer "Breiviken", a straggler from Convoy DN-50. Instead, Linois swung in behind the convoy, hoping to cut off a straggler. One German straggler, , encountered a British destroyer patrol and sank the destroyer before escaping. As a straggler, Veltjens joined Infantry Regiment Number 8. A straggler from PQ12 was however sunk by , a destroyer who was screening "Tirpitz". A blue straggler star is also present, along some spectroscopic binaries and variable stars. In 1964 he proposed mass transfer mechanism as an explanation of blue straggler stars. The primary is possibly a blue straggler of the Hyades group. A straggler from SC 122, "Clarissa Radcliffe", was also sunk with all hands by U-663. CruDiv 12 and "Spence" engaged a Japanese straggler at 05&colon;10. Rare in New Guinea; straggler to New Zealand and Europe twice (Finland and Norway).