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Convoy SC 130
Convoy SC 130 was a North Atlantic convoy which ran during the battle of the Atlantic in World War II. It was the 130th of the numbered series of Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool. SC 130 was one of several convoy battles that occurred during the crisis month of May 1943.
==Background==
SC 130, comprising thirty-seven ships, departed Halifax Harbour on 11 May 1943 in the care of a Western Local Escort Force, led by RCN destroyer ''Niagara''. The Convoy Commodore was HC Forsyth in the freighter ''Sheaf Holme''. They were met on 15 May by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-7, led by Commander Peter Gretton in the D class leader HMS ''Duncan'' and consisting of the V and W class destroyer HMS ''Vidette'', the River class frigate HMS ''Tay'', and Flower class corvettes HMS ''Snowflake'', HMS ''Sunflower'', HMS ''Pink'', HMS ''Loosestrife'' and two armed trawlers. As B-7 was one vessel short for the voyage, the corvette HMCS ''Kitchener'' was seconded from the local group for the crossing. SC 130 also included two oilers for mid-ocean re-fueling and re-arming, and the convoy rescue ship ''Zamalek''.
Ranged against them were 25 U-boats in three patrol lines, which had been organized by U-boat Command BdU on 15 May. This was in response to intelligence from the signals intelligence group B-Dienst which reported a westbound convoy (ONS 7) and two eastbound (HX 238 and SC 130) approaching the Air Gap. One group, ''Iller'', of six newly arrived boats was just arriving, while two other groups, ''Donau I'' and ''Donau II'', were formed from boats already on station plus reinforcements.
ONS 7 came under attack on 13 May, and, warned by this and by intelligence from HF/DF readings and Enigma decrypts, the Admiralty was able to divert HX 238 (which arrived without incident) and to reinforce SC 130.
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