Convoy SC 118
| Convoy SC 118 | |||||||
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| Part of Battle of the Atlantic | |||||||
 USS Schenck at sea | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom Canada United States Free French[1] |
 Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Captain H C C Forsyth RNR Commander Proudfoot RN | Admiral Karl Dönitz | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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64 freighters 5 destroyers 2 cutters 4 corvettes | 20 submarines | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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8 freighters sunk (51,592 GRT) 445 killed/drowned |
3 submarines sunk 101 killed/drowned 45 captured | ||||||
Convoy SC 118 was the 118th of the numbered series of World War II slow convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island, to Liverpool.[2] The ships departed New York City on 24 January 1943[3] and were met by