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Convoy SC 42
Convoy SC 42 was the 42nd of the numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool.〔Hague 2000 p.133〕 SC 42 was attacked over a three night period in September 1941, losing 16 ships sunk and 4 damaged. This was the worst Allied loss following the attack on convoy SC 7 the previous year. Two attacking U-boats were destroyed.
==Background==
Sixty-five ships departed Sydney (Nova Scotia) on 30 August 1941〔Hague 2000 p.135〕 under local escort, bound for Liverpool. The convoy commodore was Rear Admiral WB Mackenzie in ''Everleigh''. A week later, they were met just east of the Strait of Belle Isle by the Canadian 24th Escort Group consisting of the Canadian River class destroyer ''Skeena'' (Lt Cdr JC Hibbard, senior officer) with Flower class corvettes ''Alberni'', ''Kenogami'', and ''Orillia''.〔Rohwer & Hummelchen 1992 p.82〕 Corvettes ''Chambly'' and ''Moosejaw'' were conducting training exercises in the convoy path at the direction of Commander James D. Prentice, RCN, and were prepared to reinforce the escort as the convoy entered an area where U-boats were known to be waiting.〔Milner 1985 pp.67-8〕
Ranged against them was the ''Markgraf'' wolf pack, a group of 14 U-boats in a patrol line southeast of Greenland.
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