HX convoys

HX convoys
Part of The Battle of the Atlantic of the Second World War
Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvettes such as HMCS Regina escorted many of the HX convoys
Date September 1939 – May 1945 Location Atlantic Ocean 0°N 25°W / 0°N 25°W / 0; -25 Result Allied victory
class=notpageimage| Map of the Atlantic Ocean

HX convoys were transatlantic convoys in the North Atlantic during the First World War and in the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. HX convoys sailed eastwards from Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada, to Liverpool and other ports in Britain. They rendezvoused with BHX convoys from Bermuda en route. After the United States entered the war, HX convoys began at New York.

The HX series consisted of 377 convoys, with 17,744 ships. Thirty-eight convoys were attacked (about 10 per cent), with the loss of 110 ships in convoy; sixty stragglers were sunk and 36 lost while detached or after dispersal, with losses from marine accident and other causes, for a total loss of 206 ships or about 1 per cent of the total.^[1]