Operation Details

LGE

'LGE' was the designation Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) from Lagos, Nigeria, to the east along the coast of West Africa, and as such reciprocals of the 'LGW' series (March 1944).

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The first of these four 'Lagos Eastbound' dispersal convoys was LGE.1 of 10 March with the 2,050-ton British Ajasa, 5,609-ton British Anglo Indian, 355-ton British Auchmacoy, 3,177-ton British Bornholm, 7,069-ton British Empire Flame, 5,206-ton Norwegian Fernglen, 5,274-ton British King William, 1,387-ton Polish Lida and 4,275-ton British Matadian, and the last was LGE.2W of 27 March with 11 unspecified ships.

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