List of World War II Convoys - European Coastal Atlantic Convoys

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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