Convoy SC 94

Convoy SC 94
Part of Battle of the Atlantic

U-210 photographed from Assiniboine's deck, 6 August 1942
Date5–10 August 1942
Location
Result German victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Canada Canada
Poland
Nazi Germany 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.

  1. ^ Milner pp.142-147
  2. ^ Hague 2000 p.133
  3. ^ Hague 2000 p.135

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