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Convoy SC 104
Convoy SC-104 was the 104th of the numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool.〔Hague 2000 p.133〕During October 1942, a U-Boat wolf pack sank eight ships from the convoy. The convoy escorts sank two of the attacking submarines.
==Background==
As western Atlantic coastal convoys brought an end to the second happy time, Admiral Karl Dönitz the ''Befehlshaber der U-Boote'' (''BdU'') or commander in chief of U-Boats, shifted focus to the mid-Atlantic to avoid aircraft patrols. Although convoy routing was less predictable in the mid-ocean, Dönitz anticipated that the increased numbers of U-boats being produced would be able to effectively search for convoys with the advantage of intelligence gained through ''B-Dienst'' decryption of British Naval Cypher Number 3.〔Tarrant p.108〕 However, only 20 percent of the 180 trans-Atlantic convoys sailing from the end of July 1942 until the end of April 1943 lost ships to U-boat attack.〔Hague pp.132, 137-138, 161-162, 164, 181〕
Forty-seven ships departed New York City on 3 October 1942 and were met by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-6 consisting of the E and F class destroyer ''Fame'' and V and W class destroyer ''Viscount'', with the Norwegian-manned Flower class corvettes ''Potentilla'', ''Eglantine'', ''Montbretia'', and ''Acanthus'' and the Convoy rescue ship ''Goathland''.
Opposing this force was the U-boat Wolf pack ''Wotan'' comprising 8 boats: , , , , , , , and .〔Hague 2000 p.135〕〔Rohwer & Hummelchen 1992 p.167〕
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