The TAG convoys were a series of Caribbean convoys which ran during the

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in the

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. They take their name from the route:

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

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and Guantanamo, Cuba

Overview

The TAG series was the reverse of GAT series. The series ran from August 1942 to May 1945. There were 205 TAG convoys, comprising 3,843 individual ship listings. Five convoys were successfully attacked by U-boats during 1942 and 1943, with 12 ships sunk and one damaged but then later declared a total loss.

Convoy list

Exceptions

There were two exceptions, namely special convoy TAG.SP, which ran in two sections from Trinidad to Kingston, Jamaica, and then on to Guantanamo in January 1943, without any losses, and Convoy TAG 205 which sailed from Curaçao to Guantanamo, and comprised only one ship.

Notes

External links

Full listing of ships sailing in TAG convoys

Bibliography

* * * {{cite book, title=U.S. Warships of World War II , author=Silverstone, Paul H. , publisher=Doubleday and Company , year=1968 TAG 01 Battle of the Atlantic Caribbean Sea operations of World War II