Convoy ON 144

Convoy ON 144
Part of Battle of the Atlantic
Bow of the corvette HMS Vervain
Date 15–18 November 1942 Location North Atlantic Result German victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom Norway	Germany
Commanders and leaders
CAPT J K Brook RNR LCDR Monssen RNorN[1]	Admiral Karl Dönitz
Strength
33 freighters[1] 5 corvettes	10 submarines
Casualties and losses
5 freighters sunk (25,396 GRT) 86 killed/drowned 1 corvette sunk 47 killed/drowned	1 submarine sunk 50 killed/drowned

Convoy ON 144 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 144th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed Liverpool on 7 November 1942 and were joined on 8 November ^[2] by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-6 consisting of the Flower-class corvettes Vervain, Potentilla, Eglantine, Montbretia and Rose^[1] and the convoy rescue ship Perth.^[3] Group B-6 had sailed without the destroyers Fame and Viscount which had been damaged in the battle for eastbound convoy SC 104. The United States Coast Guard cutters Bibb, Duane, and Ingham accompanied the convoy from the Western Approaches with ships that detached for Iceland on 15 November.^[4]