European Coastal Atlantic Convoys
Code Prefix | Coastal Convoy Routes | First Sailing | Last Sailing | Number of Convoys | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BB | Belfast or River Clyde to Bristol Channel | 1940 from Belfast - 1945 from Clyde | 1943 from Belfast - 1945 from Clyde | ||
BC | Bristol Channel to Bay of Biscay | outward and return convoys used same number | |||
BD | White Sea to Dikson Island | September 1943 | |||
BK | White Sea to Kola Inlet | Summer 1941 | |||
BTC | Bristol Channel to River Thames | 1944 | 1945 | ||
CE | St. Helens Roads to Southend-on-Sea | ||||
CW | Southend-on-Sea to St. Helens Roads | ||||
DB | Dikson Island to White Sea | 1942 | |||
DF | River Clyde to Faroe Islands | military ferry service | |||
DS | River Clyde to Reykjavík | military ferry service | |||
EC | Southend-on-Sea to Oban via Firth of Forth | 1941 | 1941 | temporary substitution for EN convoys | |
EN | Methil, Fife to Oban via Loch Ewe | temporarily replaced by EC convoys during 1941 | |||
FD | Faroe Islands to River Clyde | military ferry | |||
FN | River Thames to Firth of Forth | ||||
FP | British Isles to Norway | April 1940 | May 1940 | troop convoys | |
FS | Firth of Forth to River Thames | 1939 | 1945 | ||
GREYBACK | Dieppe, Seine-Maritime to Newhaven, East Sussex | ferry service | |||
GS | Grimsby to Southend-on-Sea | 1940 | 1940 | ||
HM | Holyhead to Milford Haven | ||||
HN | Bergen to Methil, Fife | 1939 | 1940 | ||
HXA | Western Approaches to English Channel | 1939 | 1945 | English channel section of same numbered HX convoys - no sailings from 1940 to 1944 | |
KB | Kola Inlet to White Sea | ||||
KP | Kola Inlet to Pechengsky District | ||||
MH | Milford Haven to Holyhead | ||||
MT | Methil, Fife to River Tyne | ||||
NP | British Isles to Norway | April 1940 | May 1940 | troop convoys | |
OA | River Thames (or Methil, Fife after July 1940) to Liverpool | 7 September 1939 | 24 October 1940 | 234 | merged with OB convoy in the southwest approaches |
OB | Liverpool to the Atlantic Ocean | 7 September 1939 | 21 July 1941 | 345 | merged with OA convoy in the southwest approaches - ON and OS convoys replaced OB convoys |
ON | Methil, Fife to Bergen | 1939 | 1940 | ||
PW | Portsmouth to Wales | ||||
SD | Iceland to River Clyde | military ferry service | |||
SG | Southend-on-Sea to Grimsby | 1940 | 1940 | ||
SILVERTIP | Newhaven, East Sussex to Dieppe, Seine-Maritime | ferry service | |||
TBC | River Thames to Bristol Channel | 1944 | 1945 | ||
TM | British Isles to Norway | April 1940 | May 1940 | troop convoys | |
TP | Norway to British Isles | May 1940 | May 1940 | troop convoys | |
UR | Loch Ewe (later Belfast) to Reykjavík | ||||
WN | River Clyde, Oban and Loch Ewe to Firth of Forth | ||||
WP | Wales to Portsmouth |
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