Convoy HX 133 was the 133rd of the numbered series of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

HX convoys of merchant ships from HalifaX to

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

. The ships departed Halifax on 16 June 1941,Hague p.127 and were found on 23 June by

U-boat U-boats are Submarine#Military, naval submarines operated by Germany, including during the World War I, First and Second World Wars. The term is an Anglicization#Loanwords, anglicized form of the German word , a shortening of (), though the G ...

s of the 1st U-boat Flotilla, operating out of

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. U-boats sank six ships before the convoy reached Liverpool on 3 July. There was strong criticism of the RCN corvette's signalling capabilities as borne out by the number of collisions that occurred.

Ships in the Convoy

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* {{cite book , last = Hague , first = Arnold , title = The Allied Convoy System 1939–1945 , year = 2000 , isbn = 1-86176-147-3 , ref = {{sfnRef, Hague HX133 Naval battles of World War II involving Canada