Convoy HG 73

Convoy HG 73
	Part of the Battle of the Atlantic of the Second World War
	; Map of the Bay of Biscay
Date	17 September – 1 October 1941
Location	North Atlantic
Result	Axis victory
Belligerents
Kriegsmarine; Regia Marina;	United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Karl Dönitz	Kenelm Creighton
Strength
5 U-boats; 3 Italian submarines;	25 merchant ships; 16 escorts;
Casualties and losses
	302 killed; 10 ships sunk;

Convoy HG 73 (17 September – 1 October 1941) was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 73rd of the numbered HG convoys Homeward bound to the British Isles from Gibraltar. The convoy departed from Gibraltar on 17 September 1941. A German reconnaissance aircraft spotted the convoy on 18 September and it was attacked over the next ten days. Nine ships were sunk from the convoy before the submarines exhausted their torpedo inventory on 28 September. The convoy reached Liverpool on 1 October.