Convoy ON 144

Convoy ON 144
Part of Battle of the Atlantic

Bow of the corvette HMS Vervain
Date15–18 November 1942
Location
Result German victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom
Norway Norway
Germany
Commanders and leaders
CAPT J K Brook RNR
LCDR Monssen RNorN[1]
Admiral Karl Dönitz
Strength
33 freighters[1]
5 corvettes
10 submarines
Casualties and losses
5 freighters sunk (25,396 GRT)
86 killed/drowned
1 corvette sunk
47 killed/drowned
1 submarine sunk
50 killed/drowned

Convoy ON 144 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 144th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed Liverpool on 7 November 1942 and were joined on 8 November [2] by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-6 consisting of the Flower-class corvettes Vervain, Potentilla, Eglantine, Montbretia and Rose[1] and the convoy rescue ship Perth.[3] Group B-6 had sailed without the destroyers Fame and Viscount which had been damaged in the battle for eastbound convoy SC 104. The United States Coast Guard cutters Bibb, Duane, and Ingham accompanied the convoy from the Western Approaches with ships that detached for Iceland on 15 November.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Rohwer & Hummelchen pp.177&178
  2. ^ Hague pp.158&161
  3. ^ Milner pp.180-181
  4. ^ "ON convoys". Andrew Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 9 September 2012.