Convoy ON 92

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Similar World War II, Battle of the Atlantic, Convoy ONS 5, Convoy ON 127, Convoy ON 166

Convoy ON 92 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 92nd of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed Liverpool on 6 May 1942 and were joined on 7 May by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3. The convoy was discovered by Wolf pack Hecht on 11 May; and seven ships were sunk before the U-boats lost contact on 13 May. Surviving ships reached Halifax, Nova Scotia on 21 May.

U-boats

The convoy was attacked by Wolf pack Hecht, which comprised 9 u-boats, namely

U-94 (Oberleutnant zur See Otto Ites)

U-96 (Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Jürgen Hellriegel)

U-116 (Korvettenkapitän Werner von Schmidt)

U-124 (Kapitänleutnant Johann Mohr)

U-406 (Kapitänleutnant Horst Dieterichs)

U-569 (Kapitänleutnant Hans-Peter Hinsch)

U-578 (Korvettenkapitän Ernst-August Rehwinkel)

U-590 (Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Muller-Edzards)

Trivia

The song Wolfpack by Sabaton is about this convoy and the attack.

References

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