Convoy SC 100

Convoy SC-100 was the 100th of the numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool. The convoy departed Halifax on 12 September 1942 and was joined on 16 September by Mid-Ocean Escort Force Group A-3. U-boats found the convoy on 18 September and sank 5 ships in stormy weather before losing contact on 25 September. Surviving ships reached Liverpool on 28 September.

Escorts
The convoy was ecorted by the following allied warships:-
 * 13 Corvettes
 * HMCS Bittersweet, HMCS Kenogami, HMCS Louisburg, HMCS Lunenburg, HMCS Matapedia, HMCS Mayflower, HMCS Moose Jaw, HMS Nasturtium, HMCS Prescott, HMCS Rosthern, HMCS Trillium, HMCS Weyburn, HMCS ''Woodstock


 * 2 Destroyers
 * ORP Blyskawica, HMCS Niagara


 * 1 Sloop
 * HMS Deptford


 * 1 ASW Trawler
 * HMS Kingston Beryl


 * 1 Frigate
 * HMS Rother


 * 1 LST
 * HMS Narvik


 * 2 Treasury-class cutter
 * USCGC Campbell, USCGC Spencer

U-Boats
The convoy was attacked by both Wolf pack Lohs comprising 9 u-boats, and 8 u-boats from Wolf pack Pfeil, namely

Wolf pack Lohs

 * GS U-135 (1941) – Kapitänleutnant Friedrich-Hermann Praetorius
 * GS U-176 – Kapitänleutnant Reiner Dierksen
 * GS U-259 – Kapitänleutnant Klaus Köpke
 * GS U-373 – Kapitänleutnant Paul-Karl Loeser
 * GS U-410 – Kapitänleutnant Kurt Sturm
 * GS U-432 – Kapitänleutnant Heinz-Otto Schultze
 * GS U-569 – Kapitänleutnant Hans-Peter Hinsch
 * GS U-599 – Kapitänleutnant Wolfgang Breithaupt
 * GS U-755 – Kapitänleutnant Walter Göing

Wolf pack Pfeil

 * GS U-216 – Kapitänleutnant Karl-Otto Schultz
 * GS U-221 – Kapitänleutnant Hans-Hartwig Trojer
 * GS U-258 – Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm von Mässenhausen
 * GS U-356 – Kapitänleutnant Georg Wallas
 * GS U-595 – Kapitänleutnant Jürgen Quaet-Faslem
 * GS U-607 – Kapitänleutnant Ernst Mengersen
 * GS U-615 – Kapitänleutnant Ralph Kapitzky
 * GS U-617 – Kapitänleutnant Albrecht Brandi