Basic Overview
End date: 2 June 1945
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Convoy
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Atlantic Ocean & Norwegian Sea
Nations Involved
- Canada
- USA
- Germany
Operation Details
'GS' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Greenland to Sydney, Nova Scotia, or St Johns, Newfoundland, and as such reciprocals of the 'SG' (ii) series (July 1942/June 1945).
,The first of the series was GS.1 of 6/11 July 1942 from Greenland to Sydney with Montrose, which was wrecked, and two US commissioned vessels in the form of the 2,054-ton freighter Aquila and 5,450-ton oiler Laramie, and the last was GS.68 of 29 May/2 June 1945 from Greenland to Sydney with unspecified ships.
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