Convoy SC 94 | |||||||
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Part of Battle of the Atlantic | |||||||
U-210 photographed from Assiniboine's deck, 6 August 1942 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United Kingdom Canada Poland | Germany | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
VADM D F Moir LCDR A. Ayer RNR[1] | BdU:Karl Dönitz | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
35 freighters 3 destroyers 6 corvettes | 19 submarines | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
11 freighters sunk (50,780GRT) 1 destroyer damaged 1 corvette damaged 61 killed/drowned |
2 submarines sunk 46 killed/drowned 42 captured |
Convoy SC 94 was the 94th of the numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool.[2] The ships departed Sydney on 31 July 1942[3] and were met by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group C-1.