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SR (iii)

'SR' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Gibraltar, and as such reciprocals of the 'RS' series (February 1943/April 1945).

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The first of these 24 convoys was SR.1 of 10/23 February 1943 with the 7,266-ton British Avristan, 889-ton British British Coast, 5,038-ton Panamanian Cavalcade, 5,388-ton British Ernebank, 1,375-ton Norwegian Fana, 5,108-ton British Ger-y-Brin, 5,146-ton French Hoggar, 7,369-ton British Incomati, 8,979-ton British Marquesa, 10,172-ton US Monmouth, 6,530-ton British Rhesus and 5,922-ton Norwegian Tanafjord. The convoy was escorted by the sloop Bridgewater, corvettes Penstemon and Vetch, and armed trawlers Fandango, Inkpen and Lord Nuffield.

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The last of these convoys was SR.23 of 7/12 April 1945 with the 14,134-ton Dutch Boissevain and 14,139-ton British Highland Monarch.

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