Complex sentence: However it was spotted just after 9 pm, by an American destroyer, USS "Wadsworth", which rescued the three officers and eight ratings on it but despite spending the following day searching the destroyer could not locate the other survivors.
Split into simpler sentences: However it was spotted just after 9 pm, by an American destroyer, USS "Wadsworth", which rescued the three officers and eight ratings on it. But despite spending the following day searching the destroyer could not locate the other survivors.