Convoy ON 92
| Convoy ON.92 | |||||
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| Part of Battle of the Atlantic, World War II | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 Nazi Germany
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 Royal Canadian Navy
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Admiral Karl Dönitz | Capt R Gill CBE Rd RNR (Commodore) | ||||
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| 9 U-boats | 46 merchant ships 17 escorts |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 7 ships sunk 1 damaged |
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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 Liverpool on 6 May 1942 and were joined on 7 May by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3. The convoy was discovered by Wolf pack Hecht on 11 May; and seven ships were sunk before the U-boats lost contact on 13 May. Surviving ships reached Halifax, Nova Scotia on 21 May.
The convoy was attacked by Wolf pack Hecht, which comprised 9 u-boats, namely
The song Wolfpack by Sabaton is about this convoy and the attack.
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