Convoy HX 47

Convoy HX 47 was the 47th of the numbered series of World War II HX convoys of merchant ships from HalifaX to Liverpool. The ships departed Halifax on 2 June 1940 and were escorted across the North Atlantic by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Esperance Bay, a Canadian destroyer and two Royal Navy sloops. U-boats of Wolfpack Prien sank three ships with the surviving ships reached Liverpool on 17 June.