• Convoy HG 53 was the 53rd of the numbered series of World War II HG convoys of Homeward bound merchant ships from Gibraltar to Liverpool. Convoy HG 53...
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    Convoy HG 76 (19 to 23 December 1941) was an Allied convoy of the HG (Homeward from Gibraltar) series, during the Second World War. It was notable for...
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  • HG 84 was an Allied convoy of the HG (Homeward from Gibraltar) series during World War II. Following the U-boat Arm's defeat whilst attacking convoy HG...
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    Operation Torch, HG convoys were replaced by MK convoys returning mostly empty ships from the Mediterranean to the United Kingdom. KM and MK convoys ended in...
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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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  • HG 70 was an Allied convoy of the HG (Homeward from Gibraltar) series during World War II. It was attacked by a pack of ten U-boats, without success. All...
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    the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and U-37, attacked the British convoy HG 53. The convoy lost 967-ton Norwegian freighter Tejo and British freighters Jura...
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  • Convoy HG 73 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 73rd of the numbered HG convoys Homeward bound to the British...
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  • Fleets, 1939. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 484. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "Convoy HG 53". www.warsailors.com. Retrieved 9 February 2022. "D/S Ciss". Warsailors...
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    operate closer to Gibraltar, where U-boat and Luftwaffe had attacked convoy HG 53. On 11 February, Admiral Hipper encountered and sank the straggling 1...
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    intercept an Allied convoy, disabling a merchant ship 8–11 February Convoy HG 53 – 9 ships sunk and 1 German Fw 200 Condor shot down 25–28 February Operation...
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  • 251. To the south, heading to the United Kingdom from Gibraltar, was Convoy HG 47. Ranged against them was a pack of seven German submarines – U-boats...
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    Admiral Hipper was involved in attacks on two convoys: on 11 February it sank a straggler from Convoy HG 53 which was scattered after attacks by U-37 and...
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    Sloop Division, and carrying out convoy escort in the Atlantic. On 9–10 February 1941, Deptford was escorting Convoy HG 53 from Gibraltar to Britain when...
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    HX convoys from North America, HG convoys from the Mediterranean, and a short-lived series of HN convoys from Norway. Eight ships sailed as convoy SL...
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    1941 to patrol off the coast of Portugal. On 8 February she spotted Convoy HG-53. The next day, U-37 sank two British ships, Courland and Estrellano....
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    January, sank seven ships from HG 50 and SL 61. On 8 February, U-35 found convoy HG 53. The U-boat reported its presence to Fliegerführer Atlantik. I./KG 40...
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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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  • 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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    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 SC 121 was the 121st of the numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool. The ships...
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    series of major convoy battles, first around convoys Convoy HX 228, Convoy SC 121, and Convoy UGS 6; then followed the battle for Convoy HX 229/Concoy SC...
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  • UK, sailing with Convoy HG-26F from Gibraltar to Liverpool. In June Somersby again brought iron ore to the UK, sailing with Convoy HG-33F from Gibraltar...
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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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  • Publishing. p. 466. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "WW2 - People's War - A Fateful Voyage: Convoy under Attack in the Atlantic (Part 2) - Tale of Unexploded Bombs and Heroism"...
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  • Mediterranean to Allied traffic had led to the Allied convoy system in this area being re-organized. The previous OG/HG series to Gibraltar had been discontinued...
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    Operation SN42. Viscount then went back to convoy operations, and she was part of the escort of Convoy HG 47 – bound from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom...
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    The UG convoys were a series of east-bound trans-Atlantic convoys from the United States to Gibraltar carrying food, ammunition, and military hardware...
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    Battle of the Atlantic (category North Atlantic convoys of World War II)
    series of battles around the Gibraltar and Sierra Leone convoys. In December 1941, Convoy HG 76 sailed, escorted by the 36th Escort Group of two sloops...
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    command of Kapitänleutnant (Captain Lieutenant) Nicolai Clausen, spotted convoy HG 53, 19 merchant ships escorted by HMS Velox and Deptford, heading for Liverpool...
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