Conflict: | Convoy SC 67 |
Partof: | World War II |
Date: | 30 January – 15 February 1942 |
Place: | North Atlantic |
Combatant1: | Germany |
Combatant2: | Canada United Kingdom |
Commander1: | Admiral Karl Dönitz |
Commander2: | Capt E Rees DSC RD RNR |
Strength2: | 28 merchant ships 13 escorts |
Casualties2: | 1 merchant ship sunk 1 warship sunk |
Convoy SC 67 was the 67th of the numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool.[1] The convoy left Halifax on 30 January 1942 and picked up a tran-Atlantic escort in Newfoundland. This marked the start of the allied end-to-end convoy escort system, which remained in effect until the end of the war. The convoy was found by on 10 February, and attacked by of 6th U-boat Flotilla, operating out of St Nazaire. Surviving ships reached Liverpool on 15 February.[2]
Name[3] | Flag | Tonnage (GRT) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Atlanticos (1919) | 5,446 | ||
Belgique (1902) | 4,606 | ||
Biafra (1933) | 5,405 | Convoy commodore's ship, Capt E Rees DSC RD RNR | |
Brynymor (1936) | 4,771 | ||
Clunepark (1928) | 3,491 | ||
Empire Beaver (1919) | 6,036 | Returned | |
Empire Leopard (1917) | 5,676 | ||
Empire Livingstone (1941) | 6,997 | ||
Empire Zephyr (1941) | 6,327 | ||
Graiglas (1940) | 4,312 | Vice Commodore | |
Hallanger (1928) | 9,551 | ||
Heina (1925) | 4,028 | Sunk by .[4] All crew saved | |
Lagarfoss (1904) | 1,211 | Oban | |
Loriga (1919) | 6,665 | ||
Mana (1920) | 3,283 | Returned | |
Montreal City (1920) | 3,066 | ||
Mount Taurus (1920) | 6,696 | ||
Ozark (1919) | 2,689 | Iceland | |
Penolver (1912) | 3,721 | ||
Ruth I | 3,531 | ||
Sirehei (1907) | 3,888 | ||
Spero (1919) | 3,619 | Returned | |
Stone Street (1922) | 6,131 | ||
Stornest (1921) | 4,265 | ||
Tintagel (1923) | 2,972 | Collision. Towed to St John's by Rescue Tug HMS Prudent | |
Titanian (1924) | 4,880 | ||
Tore Jarl (1920) | 1,514 | Put Back | |
Wisla (1928) | 3,106 | ||
Name | Flag | Class and type | Period | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Flower-class corvette | 30 January – 11 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 2 February– 12 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 30 January – 2 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 11 February – 14 February | ||||
HMCS Hamilton | Town-class destroyer | 30 January – 2 February | |||
Flower-class corvette | 11 February – 15 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 8 February – 11 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 2 February – 11 February | ||||
Bangor-class minesweeper | 30 January – 2 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 30 January – 2 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 2 February – 11 February | ||||
Flower-class corvette | 2 February – 10 February | Sunk by . 57 dead, 8 survivors.[5] | |||
HNoMS St. Albans | Town-class destroyer | 11 February – 13 February |