Convoy HG 73

Convoy HG.73
Part of World War II
Date 17 September 1941 – 1 October 1941 Location North Atlantic
Belligerents
Kriegsmarine  Regia Marina	United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Admiral Karl Dönitz
Strength
5 U-boats 3 Italian submarines	25 merchant ships 16 escorts
Casualties and losses
	10 ships sunk

Convoy HG 73 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 73rd of the numbered HG convoys Homeward bound to the British Isles from Gibraltar. The convoy departed Gibraltar on 17 September 1941^[1] and was found on 18 September and was attacked over the next ten days. Nine ships were sunk from the convoy before the submarines exhausted their torpedo inventory on 28 September.^[2] Surviving ships reached Liverpool on 1 October.^[1]