Convoy ON 127
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Convoy ON 127 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 127th of the numbered series of ON convoys Outbound from the British Isles to North America and the only North Atlantic trade convoy of 1942 or 1943 where all U-boats deployed against the convoy launched torpedoes. The ships departed Liverpool on 4 September 1942 and were met at noon on 5 September by the Royal Canadian Navy Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group C-4 consisting of the River-class destroyer Ottawa and the Town-class destroyer St. Croix with the Flower-class corvettes Amherst, Arvida, Sherbrooke, and Celandine. St. Croix's commanding officer, acting Lieutenant Commander A. H. "Dobby" Dobson RCNR, was the senior officer of the escort group. The Canadian ships carried type 286 meter-wavelength radar but none of their sets were operational. Celandine carried Type 271 centimeter-wavelength radar. None of the ships carried HF/DF high-frequency direction finding sets.
1942
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| event | armed conflict | 1794 | Atlantic campaign of May 1794 | France, Kingdom of Great Britain, naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1805 | L'Hermite's expedition | First French Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, military expedition | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1806 | Atlantic campaign of 1806 | military campaign | Wikidata |
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| event | armed conflict | 1864 | Mutiny on the Fœderis Arca | mutiny | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Action of 10 March 1917 | naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Action of 4 April 1918 | naval battle | Wikidata |
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| event | armed conflict | 1941 | Convoy HX 133 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1941 | Convoy OG 69 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1941 | Convoy OG 71 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1941 | Convoy SC 42 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1941 | Convoy SC 48 | military convoy | Wikidata |
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| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy SC 67 | military convoy | Wikidata |
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| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy SC 94 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy ON 122 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy ON 127 | military convoy | Wikidata |
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| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy SC 107 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy ON 144 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy ON 153 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1942 | Convoy ON 154 | military convoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1943 | Convoy SC 118 | military convoy | Wikidata |
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| event | armed conflict | 1943 | Convoy SC 121 | military convoy | Wikidata |
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| event | war | 1914 | World War I | Central Powers, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Allies of the First World War, Australia, world war, historical period | Wikidata |