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The lead looks like a lift from [1]. Keith-264 (talk) 01:39, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Added all of Convoy SL 119 in case someone wants to write an account of it. Keith-264 (talk) 11:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At 01:00 on 27 August 1942, the British merchant ship Clan Macwhirter a straggler from Convoy SL 119, was sunk by U-156 at 35°45'N, 18°45'W, 200 nmi (370 km; 230 mi) north-west of Madeira with eleven crew killed and 77 survivors.^[1] The convoy suffered the loss of City of Cardiff (5,661 GRT) with 21 killed and Zuiderkirk (8,424 GRT) with no fatalities, both sunk by U-566 on 28 August.^[2] U-68 sank a ship from 12 to 15 September on the outbound voyage and the pack refuelled from U-459 a Type XIV submarine (Milchkuh, milk cow) from 24 to 25 September to the south of Ascension Island the pack attacked ships off South Africa. Up to 3 November, U-172 sank six ships of 48,054 GRT, U-159 eight ships (47,233 GRT), U-68 seven ships (44,173 GRT), U-504 six ships (36,156 GRT) and U-179 of the second wave of Type IXD2 boats that arrived on 8 October sank a ship of 6,558 GRT, before being depth-charged and rammed by HMS Active.^[3] Keith-264 (talk) 12:49, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Convoy SL 119

Merchantmen^[4]
Ship	Year	Flag	GRT	No.	Notes
Axios	1919	Greece	5,289	13
Bactria	1928	United Kingdom	2,407	12
Baron Napier	1920	United Kingdom	3,559	33
Baron Yarborough	1928	United Kingdom	3,388	92
Beaconstreet	1927	United Kingdom	7,467	42
Belgian Seaman	1941	Belgium	7,023	44
Brendoran	1910	United Kingdom	5,567	83
Cerinthus	1920	United Kingdom	3,878	22
City of Cardiff	1918	United Kingdom	5,661	82	U-566 28 August, 40°20′N, 16°02′W, 21†, 63 rescued, sank 29.8.^[5]
City of Marseilles	1913	United Kingdom	8,317	71	Vice-Convoy Commodore Captain T. L. Owen
Clan Macwhirter	1918	United Kingdom	5,941	11	Sunk, 27 August, U-156, 35°45′N, 18°45′W, 11†, 77 rescued^[1]
Empire Almond	1941	United Kingdom	6,860	54
Empire Summer	1941	United Kingdom	6,949	64
Ger-Y-Bryn	1941	United Kingdom	5,108	32
Hopecrown	1937	United Kingdom	5,180	81
Kingsbury	1937	United Kingdom	4,898	91
Mafuta	1920	Belgium	6,322	21
Maloja	1930	Norway	6,400	23
Mathura	1920	United Kingdom	8,890	43
Nagara	1919	United Kingdom	8,791	53
Nariva	1920	United Kingdom	8,714	52
Nebraska	1920	United Kingdom	8,261	21
Nolisement	1928	United Kingdom	5,084	93
Petter	1935	Norway	9,109	73
Streefkerk	1928	Netherlands	6,185	31
Stuyvesant	1918	United Kingdom	4,349	63
Theseus	1908	United Kingdom	6,527	41
Thomas Holt	1929	United Kingdom	3,585	51	Convoy Commodore Captain R. G. Clayton
William Wilberforce	1930	United Kingdom	4,013	62
Zuiderkerk	1922	Netherlands	8,424	61	Torpedoed U-566, 28. 8. 40°30′N, 16°02′W, no†, scuttled 29. 8.^[6]

parked Keith-264 (talk) 15:33, 6 January 2025 (UTC) [reply]

References

^ ^a ^b Jordan 2006, p. 493.
^ Hague 2000, p. 146.
^ Rohwer & Hümmelchen 2005, p. 200.
^ Kindell.
^ Jordan 2006, p. 492.
^ Jordan 2006, p. 554.

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Not sure if the U-cruiser data should stay or go in a separate article? My sources seem contradictory where they aren't derivative. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 19:39, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[FOOTNOTEJordan2006493-1] Jordan 2006, p. 493.

[FOOTNOTEHague2000146-2] Hague 2000, p. 146.

[FOOTNOTERohwerHümmelchen2005200-3] Rohwer & Hümmelchen 2005, p. 200.

[FOOTNOTEKindell-4] Kindell.

[FOOTNOTEJordan2006492-5] Jordan 2006, p. 492.

[FOOTNOTEJordan2006554-6] Jordan 2006, p. 554.

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