Attack on Convoy CW9 "Peewit" night of 7/8 August 1940

[Andy Saunders]

As far as I can gather, there were 24 merchant vessels plus escorts - the latter all RN ships.

Unfortunately, I could not trace the complete sailing order for CW9.

Six other merchant vessels sailed out from the Solent on 8 August intending to join the convoy, but missed it. They, however, were also attacked (by air) and some sunk.

Doug - I think I have pretty comprehensively covered all of the losses to CW9 in my book "Convoy Peewit" but I am always receptive to other versions or input. There was certainly more than one loss (if that is what Hague suggests?) although some of the losses off the IOW were technically not to CW9 since those six ships were attempting to join the convoy but never did. I should also add that whilst the convoy had been scattered (and some sunk) during the night time attack the survivors had re-formed into convoy at around dawn. None had done a runner into port, and in fact it was not possible for vessels to enter port at night-time during this period.