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Originally Posted by Ping Panther
Seth, you won! A gold medal finish! Congrats! 
The documentation that is available of this convoy also describes that this size of convoy required a formation of 19 columns for their travel. As far as I could tell, this convoy seemed to have no reports of enemy encounters. |
The Canadian Navy assisted in escorting across the Atlantic 25,343 merchant ships carrying nearly 200 million tons of cargo. During the Normandy invasion and for many months afterwards, the Canadian Navy provided the entire close escorts for Atlantic convoys as well as providing about 30% of the striking forces in the North Atlantic. A particularly noteworthy operation was the safe escort of Convoy HXS 300 from New York, Halifax, Sydney, Nova Scotia and St. Johns, Newfoundland in July 1944. This convoy totalled 167 ships carrying over a million tons of cargo and was escorted by an all-Canadian close escort. It reached the United Kingdom without losing a single ship.