Convoy QS-33

Convoy QS 33
Part of World War II, Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of the St. Lawrence
Date 6–10 September 1942 Location St. Lawrence River Result German victory
Belligerents
Germany	Canada Greece Norway United States
Commanders and leaders
BdU: Admiral Karl Dönitz Eberhard Hoffmann Paul Hartwig	E.G. Skinner
Strength
2 U-boats	8 merchant ships 5 escorts
Casualties and losses
	4 merchants sunk 1 escort sunk

Convoy QS 33 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was one of the numbered QS Convoys from Québec to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The convoy was attacked in the early months of the Battle of the St. Lawrence, in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, when German U-boats were making ad hoc forays deep into Canadian waters. The convoy was found on 6 September 1942 by U-165, which then destroyed two ships from the convoy while U-517 destroyed three.