Convoy ON 92

Convoy ON 92
Part of the Battle of the Atlantic of World War II

USS Gleaves, 18 June 1941
Date6–21 May 1942
Location
North Atlantic
Result German victory
Belligerents
 Germany  United Kingdom
 United States
 Canada
Commanders and leaders
BdU: Karl Dönitz Comm: R Gill
SOE: J Heffernan
Strength
9 submarines 1 destroyer
4 corvettes
1 cutter
46 merchant ships
Casualties and losses
None 9 killed
7 merchant ships sunk
1 merchant ship damaged

Convoy ON 92 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 92nd of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed from Liverpool on 6 May 1942[1] and were joined on 7 May[2] by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3.

The convoy was discovered by Wolfpack Hecht on 11 May; seven ships were sunk before the U-boats lost contact with the convoy on 13 May.[3] Surviving ships reached Halifax, Nova Scotia on 21 May.[1]

  1. ^ a b Hague, p. 158
  2. ^ "ON convoys". Andrew Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
  3. ^ Rohwer & Hummelchen, p. 139