Convoy ON 115 was a trade convoy of 43 merchant ships with 12 escort ships during the second World War. The convoy departed Liverpool on 24 July 1942 and arrived at Boston 8 August. Three ships were lost to U-boats during the crossing and two were damaged.
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It was the 115th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America.
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The ships departed Liverpool on 24 July 1942 and were joined on 25 July by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group C-3. They were found on 29 July by the seven U-Boats of Wolfpack Wolf. Six U-boats formed Wolfpack Pirat on 1 August and reached the convoy on 2 August. Three ships were sunk before contact was lost in misty weather on 3 August. Surviving ships reached Boston on 8 August.
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