South Atlantic Convoys
| Code Prefix | South Atlantic Routes | First Sailing | Last Sailing | Number of Convoys | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS | United States to Suez Canal | 1942 | 1942 | via Freetown | |
| BF | Bahia to Freetown | 1943 | USN escorts | ||
| BRN | Bahia to Recife northward | late 1942 | |||
| BT | Bahia to Trinidad | November 1942 | July 1943 | ||
| CF | Cape Town to British Isles via west Africa | little used | |||
| CN | Cape Town northward to dispersal | ||||
| DBF | Dakar to Freetown via Banjul, Gambia | 1943 | 1943 | ||
| DSF | Dakar to Freetown | ||||
| DSL | Dakar to Freetown and Lagos | ||||
| DSP | Dakar to Freetown and Pointe-Noire | ||||
| DST | Dakar to Freetown and Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| E | Trinidad to dispersal southward | ||||
| FB | Freetown to Bahia | ||||
| FFT | Freetown to Trinidad | 1942 | 1943 | ||
| FJ | Florianópolis to Rio de Janeiro | ||||
| FSD | Freetown to Dakar | 1944 | 1944 | small craft | |
| JF | Rio de Janeiro to Florianópolis | ||||
| JR | Rio de Janeiro to Recife | ||||
| JT | Rio de Janeiro to Trinidad | 1943 | 1945 | ||
| LGE | Lagos eastbound | local west African traffic | |||
| LGW | Lagos westbound | local west African traffic | |||
| LM | Lagos to Matadi | ||||
| LS | Lagos to Freetown | ||||
| LSD | Lagos to Dakar via Freetown | ||||
| LTS | Lagos to Freetown via Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| NC | Walvis Bay to Cape Town | ||||
| OSS | Freetown southward | southward extension of the corresponding OS convoy | |||
| OT | Trinidad to North Africa | ||||
| PGE | Pointe-Noire southward | local traffic | |||
| PAD | Pointe-Noire to Dakar via Freetown | ||||
| PT | Paramaribo to Trinidad | ||||
| PTS | Pointe-Noire to Freetown via Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| RJ | Recife to Rio de Janeiro | ||||
| RT | Cape Town to Freetown (OR) Recife to Trinidad | 1941 (African) 1943 (South American) | 1941 | ||
| SJ | Santos, São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro | ||||
| ST | Freetown to Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| STC | Freetown to Cape Town via Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| STL | Freetown to Lagos via Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| STP | Freetown to Pointe-Noire via Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| STW | Freetown to Walvis Bay via Sekondi-Takoradi | ||||
| TB | Trinidad to Bahia | ||||
| TF | Trinidad to Freetown | ||||
| TGE | Sekondi-Takoradi and Lagos eastward to dispersal | ||||
| TJ | Trinidad to Rio de Janeiro | ||||
| TLDM | Sekondi-Takoradi to Matadi via Lagos and Douala | ||||
| TO | North Africa to Caribbean | ||||
| TP | Trinidad to Paramaribo | ||||
| TR | Trinidad to Recife | ||||
| TRINIDAD | Trinidad to dispersal southeast | ||||
| TS | Sekondi-Takoradi to Freetown | ||||
| TSD | Sekondi-Takoradi to Dakar via Freetown | ||||
| TV | Trinidad eastward to dispersal | ||||
| WTS | Walvis Bay to Freetown via Sekondi-Takoradi |
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