Hi_convoys

Hi convoys

Hi convoys () were a numbered series of World War II trade convoys between Japan and Singapore. Merchant ships from Moji and Kaibōkan from Sasebo formed southbound convoys in Imari Bay to carry supplies for the Burma Campaign. Northbound convoys transported food, petroleum, and raw materials to Japan from the captured European colonies of the Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, and British Malaya and Burma. These convoys were initiated in mid-1943 to protect fast, high-value tankers and troopships from the improved effectiveness of Mark 14 torpedoes carried by United States submarines.

IJN Shimushu was one of the Kaibōkan escorting Hi convoys.

Convoy routing was through the East China Sea, Formosa Strait, and South China Sea. Ships often joined or left convoys at the Formosan ports of Takao and Keelung, at the Mako naval base in the Pescadores, and at the Vietnamese ports of Cape Saint Jacques and Cam Ranh Bay. Some convoys stopped at Manila until MATA and TAMA feeder convoys between MAnila and TAkao enabled Hi convoys to avoid United States submarine wolfpacks in the Luzon Strait by hugging the Asian coast between Hainan and Shanghai.[1]

Convoy dates

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Sources

  • Blair, Clay (1975). Silent Victory. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company. ISBN 9780397007530.
  • Cressman, Robert J. (2000). The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-149-1.

Notes

  1. Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander; Cundall, Peter. "KAIBOKAN!". Combined Fleet. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  2. "Hisendan". Nifty.com. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  3. Cressman, p.171
  4. Cressman, p.192
  5. Cressman, p.200
  6. Cressman, p.214
  7. Cressman, p.216
  8. Cressman, p.218
  9. Cressman, p.221
  10. Cressman, p.230
  11. Cressman, p.231
  12. Cressman, p.238
  13. Cressman, pp.243 & 244
  14. Cressman, p.253
  15. Cressman, p.255
  16. Cressman, pp.255 & 256
  17. Cressman, p.260
  18. Cressman, pp.274 & 275
  19. Cressman, p.282
  20. Cressman, p.278
  21. Cressman, p.288
  22. Cressman, p.289
  23. Cressman, pp.297 & 304
  24. Cressman, p.298
  25. Blair, p.821

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