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Convoy SC 118

Convoy SC 118
Part of Battle of the Atlantic

USS Schenck at sea
Date4–7 February 1943
Location
North Atlantic
Result German tactical victory
Belligerents
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 United States
 Free French[1]		  Germany
Commanders and leaders
Captain H C C Forsyth RNR
Commander Proudfoot RN		 Admiral Karl Dönitz
Strength
64 freighters
5 destroyers
2 cutters
4 corvettes		 20 submarines
Casualties and losses
8 freighters sunk (51,592 GRT)
445 killed/drowned		 3 submarines sunk
101 killed/drowned
45 captured

Convoy SC 118 was the 118th of the numbered series of World War II slow convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island, to Liverpool.[2] The ships departed New York City on 24 January 1943[3] and were met by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-2 consisting of V-class destroyers Vanessa and Vimy, the Treasury-class cutter Bibb, the Town-class destroyer Beverley, Flower-class corvettes Campanula, Mignonette, Abelia and Lobelia, and the convoy rescue ship Toward.[4]

  1. ^ The Flower-class corvette Lobelia was then under Free French
  2. ^ Hague 2000 p. 133
  3. ^ Hague 2000 p.135
  4. ^ Rohwer & Hummelchen 1992 p. 191
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