Convoy TAG 19

Date6–11 November 1942

Location

Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea

Result German tactical victory

Convoy TAG.19
Part of World War II
Date 6–11 November 1942 Location Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea Result German tactical victory
Belligerents
Germany	Netherlands  Norway  Panama United Kingdom  United States
Commanders and leaders
Admiral Karl Dönitz Kapitänleutnant Georg Staats
Strength
1 U-boat	31 merchant ships 14 escorts
Casualties and losses
	2 ships sunk

Convoy TAG 19 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 19th of the numbered TAG Convoys from Trinidad and Aruba to Guantánamo.^[1] The convoy was found on the night of 5–6 November 1942 by U-508. Kapitänleutnant Georg Staats (Knight's Cross) sank two ships from the convoy on 7 November in two approaches aboard U-508.^[2]