Convoy ON 154

Convoy ON 154

Convoy ON-154 was the 154th of the numbered series of World War II merchant ship convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. It lost 13 of its 50 freighters.

The ships departed Liverpool on 18 December 1942; they were met by the Royal Canadian Navy Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group C-1, consisting of the River class destroyer HMCS St. Laurent with the Flower class corvettes HMCS Battleford, Chilliwack, Kenogami, Napanee, and Shediac. ON-154 included the convoy rescue ship Toward, the oiler Scottish Heather and the French-crewed 2456-ton Special Service Vessel HMS Fidelity (D57). Fidelity was armed with four 4-inch (10-cm) guns, four torpedo tubes and a defensive torpedo net. She carried two landing craft (LCV-752 and LCV-754), two OS2U Kingfisher float planes and Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) 105. The convoy sailed in 12 columns of three or four ships each. The convoy formation was five miles wide and 1.5 miles long.