Convoy ON 154 | |||||||
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Part of the Battle of the Atlantic | |||||||
HMCS St. Laurent | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Royal Canadian Navy Royal Navy United States Navy | Kriegsmarine | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Wion de Malpas Egerton † Guy Windeyer | Admiral Karl Dönitz | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
50 freighters 1 destroyer 5 corvettes 1 Special Service Vessel | 20 submarines | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
13 merchant ships sunk [66,922 GRT] 177 killed 1 Special Service Vessel sunk 369 killed |
1 submarine sunk 46 killed |
Convoy ON 154 (alternatively Convoy ON(S) 154 or Convoy ONS 154) was a North Atlantic convoy of the ON convoys which ran during the battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War.[a] It was the 154th of the numbered series of merchant ship convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. It came under attack in December 1942 and lost 13 of its 50 freighters; one U-boat was sunk.
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