AP convoys

The AP convoys were a series of Arabian Sea convoys which ran during World War II.

They take their name from the route: Aden and Bandar Abbas, Persia

Overview
The AP series was the reverse of PA series that ran from September 1942 until January 1945. There were 92 AP convoys, comprising 615 individual ship listings and 215 escorts. Some of the ships listed in a convoy did not always make the complete trip between Aden and Bandar Abbas though, while some continued on to Abadan.

In 1940, there had been five other convoys labeled AP, these are separate from the 1942–1945 series.

1940
In September 1940, there were a series of convoys starting in Liverpool, and traveling to Suez, via Cape Town, and Aden, labeled AP.

In April 1940, one convoy, starting in Leith, travelling to Norway, was labeled AP. It lost one ship, Cedarbank, to GS U-26 (1936), on 21 April 1940.