Convoy SC 118

Convoy SC 118
Part of Battle of the Atlantic
USS Schenck at sea
Date 4–7 February 1943 Location North Atlantic Result German tactical victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom  Canada  United States  Free French[1]	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Captain H C C Forsyth RNR Commander Proudfoot RN	Admiral Karl Dönitz
Strength
64 freighters 5 destroyers 2 cutters 4 corvettes	20 submarines
Casualties and losses
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 Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group B-2 consisting of V-class destroyers Vanessa and Vimy, the Treasury-class cutter Bibb, the Town-class destroyer Beverley, Flower-class corvettes Campanula, Mignonette, Abelia and Lobelia, and the convoy rescue ship Toward.^[4]