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Convoy ON 166
Convoy during naval battles of the Second World War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Convoy ON 166 was the 166th of the numbered ON series of merchant ship convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. Sixty-three ships departed Liverpool 11 February 1943 and were met the following day by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3 consisting of the Treasury-class cutters Campbell and Spencer and the Flower-class corvettes Dianthus, Chilliwack, Rosthern, Trillium and Dauphin.
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Part of Battle of the Atlantic | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
CAPT W E B Magee RN CAPT P.R. Heineman USN | Admiral Karl Dönitz | ||||||
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63 freighters 1 destroyer 2 cutters 5 corvettes | 18 submarines | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
14 freighters sunk (87,994 GRT) 262 killed/drowned |
3 submarines sunk 128 killed/drowned 11 captured |
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