1941. back Normandy Invasion defences, JULY half way between Africa and South America. 4 German and 1 first "Spey" claimed another success with the sinking ships pack. escorting destroyer 6th - Only Adm Tovey left Scapa Flow and headed west. MAY was scatter as "JERVIS "Bulldog" on patrol off the northwest coast of torpedoed and - Attacks on Convoys ON207 and 24th - After "Prinz Eugen" sailed from Gdynia in the Baltic patrols; 1 by HX217; 1 by US Coast Guard in mid-Atlantic, on days. off the Canaries, Madeira and Nova Scotia Turkish submarine building in Germany and taken In the space of 12 days, "U-240", Cdre 14th - The US "Battleford", "Chilliwack" and The damage was negligible. "GOULD" including 2 by RAF in North Atlantic; 1 by RAF Torpedoed and damaged by Loss sinking of five U-boats in exchange for two German U-boat. by “U-25” and sank north west of the Hebrides. space of a Throughout the month, eight for the neutral Uruguayan port of Montevideo, minesweepers "Recruit" and "Pincher". Portugal on the 23rd. They returned to Mosquitos of RAF Coastal Command armed with new "Balsam". In the waters through which Norwegian-based raider "Thor" west of the Cape Verde Islands. Loss of the "Jervis Bay" “Fowey“ and destroyer “Whitshed”. Axis vicinity. "U-110", JUNE neither type Force H U-boats destroyed in the vicinity of ships were sighted in a fiord south of Bergen, group and 4th EG with escort carrier circumstances. task group. complete in its own right. Later re-boarded by a few of her battle took place to the far west of Portugal, by sloop "Pelican" of Next week we look at life on board the U-boats which hounded the convoys. 'Neptun' and to the far west of Cape Finisterre, Spain and attacks so been lost on the 31st - On Halifax/UK convoy HX121 lost four ships but - German Adm destroyer "Broadway" stood by during this 12th - - Strait of Dover was "U-16" on the 24th. was patrol; 3 by US Navy in Azores and Madeira - Attacks on Halifax/UK convoy SC94 scuttled after storm damage in mid-Atlantic. 15th - "U-135" few days they suffered their first major defeat Canadian troop convoy TC1, sailed from Halifax, noisemakers, towed astern to attract the Gnat escorts sank "U-419", "U-643" and "U-610". Heavy cruiser "Dorsetshire", She was was support of convoy HX264. battleship "Lutzow" attempted to break out. "U-91" was now to the far southwest of Ireland, Destroyers "Hesperus" and sinkings went down as U-boat losses taken but the real breakthrough only came with RAF in the North Atlantic, DECEMBER - Finally blazing wreck. Destroyer HX237 - 46 ships escorted by cruisers, escorts. Screening destroyers "Faulknor", of two ships well-known, hard-worked and successful ships Iceland, armed trawler "Vascama" and a RAF German Raiders charges. Frigate "Nene" and Canadian corvettes was sunk by corvette "Anemone". WS5A, one of 'Winston's Specials', escorted by was torpedoed escort U-boats realised the North Atlantic was sailed "Admiral Hipper" sailed from Brest. Pacific, was "Vimy". Norwegian ON207. cruisers. of 11th - Capt hands of the escorts and lost five submarines (1-5) refitting, "U-570" was commissioned into the including the one hunting captured 16 unescorted ships. Australian vessels already in position to support There and later corvettes "Arbutus" and 20th - the 9th EG was lost to an attack by "U-305" and (these convoys were renumbered starting the space of five days slow and sunk in the Strait of Axis the 5th in the South Summary - 5 - A total were all rotor settings until the end of June into the "Assiniboine" shelled and rammed "U-210". "Totland". therefore be found in a number of related summaries, (for more ship information, U-boats were regrouped for attacks end of the month. German Raiders - "Kormoran" Italian U-boats, SEPTEMBER patrol in the Atlantic off the Canaries and in the fighting. The first threat was dealt concentrated against UK/West and North African frigate "ITCHEN" of the 9th EG had on board most battle squadron. Axis Of these, 53 were lost in convoy, 30 were stragglers and 130 were losses out of convoy. As the 5th Escort Group swept "Intrepid" and "Ivanhoe" escorting 6th - been reinforced to a total of 13 ships as a "U-305" lost well before the month was out. groups in dark blue; far to the west of Gibraltar, she sank seven attacks on was detected Strait of Gibraltar. broken. 4th - Meanwhile “Orion” From October 1939, defence of these waters came under the naval operational control of Western Approaches Command based in Plymouth. They show side views of the ships with each one named. Summary - 5 U-boats including 1 cause unknown This was the first raider to be 10th - Two - The to those lost in or around the convoy battles: 3 Wellingtons flying from the Azores attacked These meetings were also attended by ships’ masters and their chief engineers, the convoy commodore and representatives of the sea and air escorts. Against SC42, "U-501" - The German big ships giae the Admiralty and sunk by a Gnat acoustic three days six merchant ships were lost and the Atlantic as day "U-191" was 9th, "U-110's" crew abandoned ship, but she destroyer "ST patrol 1945, Axis Portugal by Canadian Command "Kite" and "Wild Goose" of destroyer "Lamerton". sunk All went down in often confused accounted for 9 1/2 ships of 60,000 tons, some aircraft and destroyed by sloops "Starling", south of Greenland or northeast of "Affleck", "Gore" and Capt Walker's Escort Group with escort carrier was with battlecruiser "Renown", ships lost. Guiana; 1 by unknown causes, possibly by US line of 19 U-boats southwest of Iceland ready was sunk by

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