Eisenhower's tankers

[Diagram by types of ship] [Diagram by Task Groups]

Start: Thursday January 7, 1943 Ending: Monday January 11, 1943

Destruction by German submarines of a tankers convoy sent from Trinidad to Gibraltar to supply the troops in North Africa. Only two out of the nine tankers arrived !

Place: North Atlantic

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Forces
  • Boyle (Escort Group B5): 1 destroyer, 3 corvettes.
  • TM 1 (Tankers convoy from Trinidad to Gibraltar and necessary to supply the troops in North Africa.): 9 oilers.
  • Reinforcements for the escort, arriving on Januar 12th.: 1 destroyer, 2 corvettes.
Total: 2 destroyers, 5 corvettes, 9 oilers
  • Dolphin (Wolfpack of U boats): 10 submarines.
  • indivual U boats: 4 submarines.
Total: 14 submarines
Losses 7 oilers lost.
56 453 tons.		 2 submarines damaged.


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Made by LemaireSoft on July 3, 2001