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KR (ii)

'KR' (ii) was the designation Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Calcutta, India, and Arakan ports, Burma, to Rangoon, Burma, and as such reciprocals of the 'RK' (ii) series (May 1945).

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The first of this 'Calcutta to Rangoon' series was the KR.6 convoy of 24/26 May 1945 with the 11,080-ton British Dilwara and 9,213-ton British Nevasa, and the last was the KR.24 convoy of 31 July/3 August 1945 with the 9,213-ton British Nevasa and 10,683-ton British Staffordshire.

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