Convoy ON 92

Convoy ON 92
Part of the Battle of the Atlantic of World War II
USS Gleaves, 18 June 1941
Date 6–21 May 1942 Location North Atlantic Result German victory
Belligerents
Germany	United Kingdom  United States  Canada
Commanders and leaders
BdU: Karl Dönitz	Comm: R Gill SOE: J Heffernan
Strength
9 submarines	1 destroyer 4 corvettes 1 cutter 46 merchant ships
Casualties and losses
None	9 killed 7 merchant ships sunk 1 merchant ship damaged

Convoy ON 92 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 92nd of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America. The ships departed from Liverpool on 6 May 1942^[1] and were joined on 7 May^[2] by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3.

The convoy was discovered by Wolfpack Hecht on 11 May; seven ships were sunk before the U-boats lost contact with the convoy on 13 May.^[3] Surviving ships reached Halifax, Nova Scotia on 21 May.^[1]