Basic Overview
End date: 6 November 1944
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Convoy
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Atlantic Ocean & Norwegian Sea
Nations Involved
- UK
- USA
- Germany
Operation Details
'CK' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Charleston, on the east coast of the USA, to the UK (January/November 1944).
,The first of the series was CK.1 which departed Charleston, South Carolina on 20 January 1944 with eight commissioned ships in the form of the 1,030-ton fleet tug Keywaydin, minesweepers Owl, Threat and Tide, and submarine chasers PC-484, PC-1176 and PC-1261. The last was CK.4 which departed Charleston on 6 November 1944 with five commissioned ships in the form of the 5,450-ton oiler Mattole escorted by the destroyer escorts Fogg, George W. Ingram, Ira Jeffery and Lee Fox.
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