• 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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    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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  • order of battle during the battle around convoys HX 229 and SC 122 from 16 to 20 March 1943. Convoy HX 229 Escort Group B-4 Destroyers: HMS Volunteer (D71)...
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    North America to the British Isles in HX convoys since 1939 and in slower SC convoys since 1940. These convoys were escorted by the Royal Navy and Royal...
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  • potentially ruinous rate of exchange. An attack by U-Boats of fictional Convoys "HX 229", "HX 229A" and "SC112", is a key plot element in the 1995 novel Enigma...
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  • not generally meet incoming convoys until south of Iceland, reckoned to be the limit of U-boat endurance. For Convoy HX 90, the ocean escort was the...
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    "HX convoys". Arnold Hague Convoy Database. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011. "ON convoys". Arnold Hague Convoy Database...
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    of Convoy SC 121. "Table 21 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921. "HX convoys". Andrew...
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  • SC convoys were a series of North Atlantic convoys that ran during the battle of the Atlantic during World War II. They were east-bound slow convoys originating...
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    The Admiralty sent the ten ships and a submarine escorting Convoy OB 229 to defend Convoy HX 79, which arrived from 8:00 a.m. to noon on 19 October. During...
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