Convoy ON 144
Convoy ON 144 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 144th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed Liverpool on 7 November 1942 and were joined on 8 November by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-6 consisting of the Flower class corvettes Vervain, Potentilla, Eglantine, Montbretia and Rose and the convoy rescue ship Perth. Group B-6 had sailed without the destroyers Fame and Viscount which had been damaged in the battle for eastbound convoy SC 104. The United States Coast Guard cutters Bibb, Duane, and Ingham accompanied the convoy from the Western Approaches with ships that detached for Iceland on 15 November.
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Convoy ON 144
Convoy ON 144 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 144th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed Liverpool on 7 November 1942 and were joined on 8 November by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-6 consisting of the Flower class corvettes Vervain, Potentilla, Eglantine, Montbretia and Rose and the convoy rescue ship Perth. Group B-6 had sailed without the destroyers Fame and Viscount which had been damaged in the battle for eastbound convoy SC 104. The United States Coast Guard cutters Bibb, Duane, and Ingham accompanied the convoy from the Western Approaches with ships that detached for Iceland on 15 November.
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Convoy ON 144 was a trade conv ...... ed for Iceland on 15 November.
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1 corvette sunk
47 killed/drowned
5 freighters sunk (25,396GRT)
86 killed/drowned
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25pxGermany
25pxUnited Kingdom
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date
1942-11-18
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German tactical victory
strength
10 submarines
33 freighters
5corvettes
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36,968,388
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741,114,239
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Bow of the corvette HMS Vervain
commander
CAPT J K Brook RNR
LCDR Monssen RNorN
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Convoy ON 144 was a trade conv ...... ed for Iceland on 15 November.
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