Convoy OG 71
Name Flag Type Joined Left
HNoMS Bath ( I17 ) Royal Norwegian Navy Wickes -class destroyer 13 Aug 1941 Sunk by U-204 on 19 Aug 1941 , 88 Dead
HMS Bluebell ( K80 ) Royal Navy Flower-class corvette 15 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Boreas ( H77 ) Royal Navy B-class destroyer 22 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Campanula ( K18 ) Royal Navy Flower-class corvette 15 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Campion ( K108 ) Royal Navy Flower-class corvette 15 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Gurkha ( G63 ) Royal Navy L-class destroyer 20 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Hydrangea ( K39 ) Royal Navy Flower-class corvette 15 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Lance ( G87 ) Royal Navy L-class destroyer 20 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Leith ( U36 ) Royal Navy Grimsby -class sloop 13 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Vidette ( D48 ) Royal Navy Admiralty V-class destroyer 21 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Wallflower ( K44 ) Royal Navy Flower-class corvette 15 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Wivern ( D66 ) Royal Navy Modified W-class destroyer 22 Aug 1941 23 Aug 1941
HMS Zinnia ( K98 ) Royal Navy Flower-class corvette 13 Aug 1941 Sunk by U-564 on 23 Aug 1941 , 68 Dead
Ships in the convoy -- Convoy escorts
A series of armed military ships escorted the convoy at various times during its journey . [ 10 ]
Convoy OG 71 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 71st of the numbered OG convoys Outbound from the British Isles to Gibraltar. The convoy departed Liverpool on 13 August 1941 and was found on 17 August by a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor of Kampfgeschwader 40. Starting on August 19, it became the first convoy of the war to be attacked by a German submarine wolfpack, when reached by eight U-boats from 1st U-boat Flotilla, operating out of Brest. Ten ships comprising a total tonnage of 15,185 tons were sunk before the U-boats lost contact on 23 August.