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Convoy HG 73 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 73rd of the numbered HG convoys Homeward bound to the British Isles from Gibraltar. The convoy departed Gibraltar on 17 September 1941〔Hague, pp. 177–178〕 and was found on 18 September by a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ''Condor'' of ''Kampfgeschwader'' 40 (KG 40). The 25-ship convoy was attacked by five U-boats of 1st and 2nd U-boat Flotillas, operating out of Brest and Lorient, respectively. They were initially assisted by Italian submarines ''Luigi Torelli'', ''Morosini'' and ''Leonardo Da Vinci'', that were en route to the Mediterranean. Nine ships were sunk from the convoy before the submarines exhausted their torpedo inventory on 28 September.〔Rohwer & Hummelchen, p. 86〕 Surviving ships reached Liverpool on 1 October.〔 ==Escorts== When leaving Gibraltar on 17 September the convoy was protected by the following escorts:- * British destroyer (LtCdr H.G.D. de Chair, RN) until 22 September * British escort destroyers (LtCdr A.N. Rowell, RN) and (Cdr S.H. Carlill, RN) until 20 September * British sloop (LtCdr L.C.A. Leefe, RN) * British corvettes (T/Lt T.A.R. Muir, RNR), (Cdr R.O. Yeomans, RD, RNR), (LtCdr C.G. Cuthbertson, RNR), (LtCdr C.D.B. Coventry, RNR (retired)), (Lt S.C.B. Hickman, RNR), (Lt G.P.S. Lowe, RNVR), (LtCdr P.G. MacIver, RNR) and (Lt J.V. Brock, RCNVR) * British fighter catapult ship (Capt C.H. Godwin, DSO, RN (retired)) until lost on 27 September. On 20 September, the convoy was joined by the following:- *British destroyers (LtCdr C.E.L. Sclater, RN) until 22 September, (Cdr S. Boucher, RN), until 26 September, and (LtCdr J.M. Rowland, RN) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Convoy HG 73」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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