Convoy ON-153 was the 153rd of the numbered series of ON convoys of merchant ships Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The World War II convoy...
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In December, while escorting Convoy ON 153, the convoy came under attack and three ships were sunk. During this action, on 11 December, Firedrake was torpedoed...
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Convoy Battles of World War II occurred when convoys of warships protected cargo ships assembled for mutual defense and were attacked by submarines, surface...
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Convoy ON 92 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 92nd of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the...
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Convoy PQ 17 was the name for an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War. On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the...
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escort to New Guinea convoys, defends them from Japanese air attacks 11–31 December Convoy ON 153 – German U-boats intercept Allied convoy, sink three merchant...
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Mid-ocean escort force (category North Atlantic convoys of World War II)
and Sunflower. Convoys HX 186, ON 94, HX 192, ON 106, SC 91, ON 117, SC 103, ON 142 and HX 216 were escorted without loss. Convoy ON 153 lost three ships...
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returning with westbound convoys. During the ship's first eastbound voyage, nine German bomber aircraft attacked its convoy off Algeria on 1 August 1944. Reuben...
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departed from Galveston, Texas on 6 November 1943 as a member of Convoy HK 153, which arrived at Key West, Florida on 10 November. She then sailed to...
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reached Boston on 8 August. "Convoy ON.115". Arnold Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 12 November 2013. Rohwer & Hummelchen, pp. 144, 152 & 153 "Arlette –...
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Convoy ON 67 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 67th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the...
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Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (in German). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2015. "Chronological List of Japanese Merchant...
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HX convoys were transatlantic convoys in the North Atlantic during the First World War and in the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. HX convoys...
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HX 79 was an Allied convoy in the North Atlantic of the HX series, which sailed east from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The convoy took place during the Battle...
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allowing Soviet forces in Stalingrad to be resupplied. While escorting the convoy ON 153, the British destroyer Firedrake was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine...
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Derry which was employed escorting Atlantic convoys. On 17 December 1942, while escorting Convoy ON 153, HMS Firedrake, the escort group commander's...
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Auschwitz concentration camp from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium, on the twentieth convoy from the camp. In the aftermath of the attack, a number of others...
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ONS 20 and ON 206 were North Atlantic convoys of the ONS/ON series which ran during the battle of the Atlantic in World War II. They were the subject of...
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Convoy ON 154 - also ON(S) 154 or ONS 154 - was a North Atlantic convoy of the ON series which ran during the battle of the Atlantic in World War II....
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ONS 18 and ON 202 were North Atlantic convoys of the ONS/ON series which ran during the battle of the Atlantic in World War II. They were the subject of...
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formed into convoys for protection against German submarine attack. In March 1943 convoys HX 229 and SC 122 were the focus of the largest convoy battle of...
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Operation Vigorous (redirect from Convoy MW 11)
Harpoon from Gibraltar and supporting operations. Sub-convoy MW11c sailed from Port Said (Egypt) on 11 June, to tempt the Italian battlefleet to sail early...
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HMS Hilary (1940) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Hague, Arnold. "Convoy UGF.2". HX Convoy Series. Don Kindell, Convoyweb. Retrieved 18 February 2021. Hague, Arnold. "Convoy ON.153". ON Convoy Series. Don...
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Convoy ON 127 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 127th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the...
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Convoy ON 166 was the 166th of the numbered ON series of merchant ship convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. Sixty-three ships departed...
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Isles. While HX convoys, ON convoys, SC convoys, and CU convoys sailed to or from North America, Gibraltar convoys carried supplies on the traditional...
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HMS Firedrake (H79) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
escort for Convoy ON 144 on 18 November and helped to prevent any further losses to the convoy. On 16 December, while escorting Convoy ON 153, Firedrake...
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164, 181 Rohwer & Hummelchen 1992 p. 153 Douglas pp. 505-507 Hague 2000 p.137 "SC convoys". Arnold Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 29 May 2011. Milner...
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to be convoyed for the last leg of their voyage to Liverpool. On the basis of World War I experience, SL convoys were one of four trade convoy routes...
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Retrieved 20 September 2023. "U-357". Uboat. Retrieved 17 March 2012. "Convoy HX 219". Warsailors. Retrieved 17 May 2012. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990)...
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