# List of Allied convoys during World War II by region

This is a List of Allied convoys during World War II by region.

## European Coastal Atlantic convoys

European Coastal :
| Code | Route | First sailing | Last sailing | No. run | Notes |
| BB | Belfast or River Clyde to Bristol Channel | 1940 Belfast, 1945 Clyde | 1943 Belfast, 1945 Clyde | | |
| BC | Bristol Channel to Bay of Biscay | | | | outward and return convoys used same number |
| BD | White Sea to Dikson Island | September 1943 | | | |
| BK | White Sea to Kola Inlet | Summer 1941 | | | |
| BTC | Bristol Channel to River Thames | 1944 | 1945 | 165 | |
| CE | St. Helens Roads to Southend-on-Sea | 1940 | 1944 | 261 | |
| CW | Southend-on-Sea to St. Helens Roads | 1940 | 1944 | 270 | |
| DB | Dikson Island to White Sea | 1942 | | | |
| DF | River Clyde to Faroe Islands | | | | military ferry service |
| DS | River Clyde to Reykjavík | | | | military ferry service |
| EC | Southend-on-Sea to Oban via Firth of Forth | 1941 | 1941 | 90 | temporary substitution for EN convoys |
| EN | Methil, Fife to Oban via Loch Ewe | 1940 | 1945 | 597 | temporarily replaced by EC convoys during 1941 |
| FD | Faroe Islands to River Clyde | | | | military ferry |
| FN | River Thames to Firth of Forth | 1939 | 1945 | 1,744 | |
| FP | Brest via British Isles to Norway | April 1940 | May 1940 | | French and Polish troop convoys |
| FS | Firth of Forth to River Thames | 1939 | 1945 | | 1,840 |
| FS | Brest via British Isles to Norway | April 1940 | May 1940 | | French supply convoys |
| GREYBACK | Dieppe, Seine-Maritime to Newhaven, East Sussex | | | | ferry service |
| GS | Grimsby to Southend-on-Sea | 1940 | 1940 | | |
| HM | Holyhead to Milford Haven | | | | |
| HN | Bergen to Methil, Fife | 1939 | 1940 | | |
| HXA | Western Approaches to English Channel | 1939 | 1945 | | English channel section of same numbered HX convoys – no sailings from 1940 to 1944 |
| KB | Kola Inlet to White Sea | | | | |
| KP | Kola Inlet to Pechengsky District | | | | |
| MH | Milford Haven to Holyhead | | | | |
| MT | Methil, Fife to River Tyne | | | | |
| NP | British Isles to Norway | April 1940 | May 1940 | | troop convoys |
| OA | River Thames (or Methil, Fife after July 1940) to Liverpool | 7 September 1939 | 24 October 1940 | 234 | merged with OB convoy in the southwest approaches |
| OB | Liverpool to the Atlantic Ocean | 7 September 1939 | 21 July 1941 | 345 | merged with OA convoy in the southwest approaches - ON and OS convoys replaced OB convoys |
| ON | Methil, Fife to Bergen | 1939 | 1940 | | |
| PW | Portsmouth to Wales | | | | |
| SD | Iceland to River Clyde | | | | military ferry service |
| SG | Southend-on-Sea to Grimsby | 1940 | 1940 | | |
| SILVERTIP | Newhaven, East Sussex to Dieppe, Seine-Maritime | | | | ferry service |
| TBC | River Thames to Bristol Channel | 1944 | 1945 | | |
| TM | British Isles to Norway | April 1940 | May 1940 | | troop convoys |
| TP | Norway to British Isles | May 1940 | May 1940 | | troop convoys |
| UR | Loch Ewe (later Belfast) to Reykjavík | | | | |
| WN | River Clyde, Oban and Loch Ewe to Firth of Forth | | | | |
| WP | Wales to Portsmouth | | | | |

## North Atlantic convoys

| Code prefix | Route | First sailing | Last sailing | Number of convoys | Notes |
| AT | United States to British Isles | March 1942 | 1945 | | troopships |
| BHX | Bermuda to Liverpool | May 1940 | March 1941 | 97 (# 41-137) | sailed from Bermuda and merged with same number HX convoy at sea |
| CK | Charleston, South Carolina to British Isles | 1944 | 1944 | | rarely used |
| CT | British Isles to Canada | 1941 | 1941 | | troopships |
| CU | Caribbean (later New York City) to Liverpool | 20 March 1943 | 30 May 1945 | 73 | 14-knot convoys of tankers with some fast cargo ships |
| GUF | Mediterranean to Chesapeake Bay | 29 November 1942 | 16 April 1945 | 22 | faster ships |
| GUS | Mediterranean to Chesapeake Bay | 21 December 1942 | 27 May 1945 | 92 | slower ships |
| HG | Gibraltar to Liverpool | 26 September 1939 | 19 September 1942 | 89 | replaced by MKS convoys after Operation Torch |
| HX | Halifax Harbour (later New York City) to Liverpool | 16 Sept 1939 | 23 May 1945 | 377 | 9-knot convoys for ships of sustained speeds less than 15 knots |
| HXF | Halifax Harbour to Liverpool | 29 Sept 1939 | 12 February 1940 | 17 | fast sections of HX convoys |
| JW | Iceland to White Sea | 25 December 1942 | 12 May 1945 | 17 (# 51-67) | replaced PQ convoys |
| KJ | Kingston, Jamaica to United Kingdom | | | | |
| KMF | Firth of Clyde to Mediterranean | 26 October 1942 | 23 May 1945 | 45 | faster ships to the Mediterranean |
| KMS | Liverpool to Mediterranean | 22 October 1942 | 27 April 1945 | 98 | slower ships to the Mediterranean - 1st 12 sailed independently, remainder sailed with OS convoys and detached west of Gibraltar |
| MKF | Mediterranean to Firth of Clyde or Liverpool | 12 November 1942 | 4 June 1945 | 45 | faster ships from the Mediterranean |
| MKS | Mediterranean to Liverpool | 12 November 1942 | 25 May 1945 | 103 | slower ships from the Mediterranean- 1st 11 sailed independently, remainder merged with SL convoys west of Gibraltar |
| NA | Canada to British Isles | | | | troopships |
| OG | Liverpool to Gibraltar | 2 October 1939 | 17 October 1943 | 95 | early sailings every 5th merged OA/OB convoy became an OG convoy at sea - later OG convoys sailed from Liverpool |
| ON | Liverpool to Halifax Harbour | 26 July 1941 | 27 May 1945 | 307 | replaced OB convoys for North American destinations - alternate convoys included slower ships until the ONS convoys started |
| ONS | Liverpool to Halifax Harbour | 15 March 1943 | 21 May 1945 | 51 | slower ships westbound on the ON convoy route |
| OS | Liverpool to Sierra Leone | 24 July 1941 | 27 May 1945 | 131 | replaced OB convoys for non-North American destinations - included KMS convoys detached west of Gibraltar |
| PQ | Iceland to White Sea | 29 September 1941 | 2 September 1942 | 18 | replaced by JW convoys |
| QP | White Sea to Iceland | 28 September 1941 | 17 November 1942 | 15 | replaced by RA convoys |
| RA | White Sea to Scotland | 30 December 1942 | 23 May 1945 | 17 (# 51-67) | replaced QP convoys |
| RB | United States to British Isles | September 1942 | September 1942 | 1 | small passenger steamers |
| SC | Sydney, Nova Scotia (or Halifax Harbour or New York City) to Liverpool | 15 August 1940 | 26 May 1945 | 177 | 7-knot convoys of eastbound ships too slow for the 9-knot HX convoys |
| SL | Sierra Leone to Liverpool | 14 September 1939 | 25 November 1944 | 178 | merged with MKS convoys west of Gibraltar |
| TA | British Isles to United States | | | | large troopships |
| TC | Canada to British Isles | 1939 | 1941 | | troopships carrying Canadian troops |
| TCU | Caribbean (later New York City) to Liverpool | | | | 14-knot CU convoys of tankers and fast cargo ships with troopships |
| TU | British Isles to United States | 1943 | 1944 | | troopships |
| TUC | Liverpool to Caribbean (later New York City) | | | | 14-knot UC convoys of tankers and fast cargo ships with some troopships |
| UC | Liverpool to Caribbean (later New York City) | 15 February 1943 | 3 June 1945 | 71 | 14-knot convoys of tankers with some fast cargo ships |
| UGF | Chesapeake Bay to Mediterranean | 24 October 1942 | 8 April 1945 | 22 | faster ships - (UGF-1) was the invasion force for Operation Torch |
| UGS | Chesapeake Bay to Mediterranean | 13 November 1942 | 28 May 1945 | 95 | slower ships |
| UT | United States to British Isles | 1943 | 1944 | | troopships |

## North American coastal and Caribbean convoys

| Code prefix | Route | First sailing | Last sailing | Notes |
| AH | Aruba to Halifax Harbour | July 1942 | September 1942 | a brief tanker series |
| ARG | Boston to Argentia, Newfoundland | | | USN convoys |
| AW | Aruba to Curaçao | | | local tanker traffic |
| BS | Corner Brook, Newfoundland to Sydney, Nova Scotia | | | a brief series |
| BW | Sydney, Nova Scotia to St. John's, Newfoundland | 1942 | | |
| BX | Boston to Halifax Harbour | 21 March 1942 | 22 May 1945 | |
| CK | Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida | | | |
| CL | St. John's, Newfoundland to Sydney, Nova Scotia | | | |
| CP | Curaçao to Panama Canal | 1942 | 1942 | |
| CW | Panama Canal to Key West, Florida | | | |
| CZ | Curaçao to Panama Canal | | | |
| FH | Saint John, New Brunswick to Halifax Harbour | late 1942 | | |
| G | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Puerto Rico | | | |
| GAT | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Trinidad via Aruba | | | |
| GJ | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Kingston, Jamaica | | | |
| GK | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Key West, Florida | | | |
| GM | Galveston, Texas to Mississippi River | | | |
| GN | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to New York City | | | |
| GP | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Panama Canal | | | |
| GS | Greenland to Sydney, Nova Scotia, or St. John's, Newfoundland | | | USN escorted convoys |
| GZ | Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Panama Canal | 1942 | | |
| HA | Halifax Harbour to Curaçao | 1942 | September 1942 | replaced HT convoys |
| HF | Halifax Harbour to Saint John, New Brunswick | | | |
| HHX | Halifax Harbour to meet HX convoys originating in New York City at the Halifax Ocean Meeting Point (HOMP) | | | |
| HJ | Halifax Harbour to St. John's, Newfoundland | | | |
| HK | Houston, Texas to Key West, Florida | | | |
| HON | Halifax Harbour to ON convoys at the Halifax Ocean Meeting Point (HOMP) | | | |
| HS | Halifax Harbour to Sydney, Nova Scotia | | | |
| HT | Halifax Harbour to Trinidad | May 1942 | 1942 | replaced by HA convoys |
| JG | Kingston, Jamaica to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | | | |
| JH | St. John's, Newfoundland to Halifax Harbour | | | |
| JN | St. John's, Newfoundland to Labrador | | | |
| KG | Key West, Florida to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | | | |
| KH | Key West, Florida to Houston, Texas | | | |
| KN | Key West, Florida to New York City | | | |
| KP | Key West, Florida to Mississippi River | | | |
| KS | New York City to Key West, Florida | | | |
| KW | Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba | | | |
| LC | Sydney, Nova Scotia to St. John's, Newfoundland | | | |
| LN | St. Lawrence River to Labrador | | | |
| MG | Mississippi River to Galveston, Texas | | | |
| NG | New York City to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | | | |
| NJ | Newfoundland (island) coast to St. John's, Newfoundland | | | |
| NK | New York City to Key West, Florida | | | |
| NL | Labrador to St. Lawrence River | | | |
| PG | Panama Canal to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | 1942 | 1942 |
| PK | Pilottown, Louisiana to Key West, Florida | | | |
| QS | Quebec to Sydney, Nova Scotia | | | |
| SB | Sydney, Nova Scotia to Corner Brook, Newfoundland | 1942 | | |
| SG | Sydney, Nova Scotia (later St. John's, Newfoundland) to Greenland | 1942 | 1942 | USN escorted convoys |
| SH | Sydney, Nova Scotia to Halifax Harbour | | | |
| SHX | Sydney, Nova Scotia to HX convoys | | | |
| SJ | San Juan, Puerto Rico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | | | |
| SQ | Sydney, Nova Scotia to Quebec | | | |
| TAG | Trinidad to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base via Aruba | 1942 | | |
| TAW | Trinidad to Key West via Curaçao | 1942 | 1942 | |
| TG | Trinidad to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | | | |
| TH | Trinidad to Halifax Harbour | 1942 | 1942 | |
| TO | Trinidad to Curaçao | | |
| WA | Curaçao to Aruba | | | |
| WAT | Key West to Trinidad via Curaçao | | | |
| WS | Wabana, Newfoundland and Labrador to Sydney, Nova Scotia | | | |
| XB | Halifax Harbour to Boston | 18 March 1942 | | |
| ZC | Panama Canal to Curaçao | | | |
| ZG | Panama Canal to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | | | |

## Mediterranean and North African coastal convoys

| Code prefix | Route | First sailing | Last sailing | Notes |
| AC | Alexandria to Tobruk | 1941 | 1941 | |
| AG | Alexandria to Greece | 1941 | 1941 | |
| AH | Augusta, Sicily to heel of Italy | September 1943 | | |
| AN | Alexandria to Piraeus | 1940 | 1941 | |
| AP | British Isles to Egypt | summer 1940 | summer 1940 | troopships |
| ARM | local Mediterranean | | | little used |
| AS | Piraeus to Alexandria | 1940 | 1941 | |
| AT | Alexandria to Tobruk | late 1941 | | |
| Blue | Port Said to Gibraltar | 1939 | 1939 | |
| BS | Brest, France to Casablanca | September 1939 | June 1940 | French convoys |
| CG | Casablanca to Gibraltar | | | |
| CNF | convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | | | special designation |
| CRD | Casablanca to Dakar | | | |
| CT | Corsica to Bizerte via Sardinia | 1944 | 1944 | |
| CV | Tobruk to Malta | 1944 | 1944 | rarely used |
| D | Dakar to Casablanca | | | |
| DR | Dakar to Gibraltar | 1944 | 1944 | |
| DRC | Dakar to Casablanca | | | |
| ET | North Africa to Gibraltar | November 1942 | early 1943 | |
| GC | Gibraltar to Casablanca | | | |
| GM | Gibraltar to Malta | | | |
| Green | Gibraltar to Port Said | late 1939 | late 1939 | |
| GTX | Gibraltar to Alexandria via Tripoli | 1943 | 1943 | |
| GUF | Oran or Naples to Chesapeake Bay | | | faster ships |
| GUS | Port Said to Chesapeake Bay | | | slower ships |
| HA | heel of Italy to Augusta, Sicily | 1943 | | |
| HP | heel of Italy to Piraeus | | | |
| IXF | Taranto and Naples to Alexandria and Port Said | | | |
| K | Casablanca to Brest, France | | | French convoys - sometimes prefixed F or S |
| KS | Casablanca to Brest, France | | | French convoys |
| LE | Port Said to Haifa | | | |
| LW | Haifa to Port Said | | | |
| ME | Malta to Alexandria and Port Said | | | |
| MO | Marseilles to North Africa | | | |
| Ms | Marseilles to Naples | 1944 | 1945 | |
| MW | Alexandria to Malta | | | |
| NCF | fast convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | 1943 | 1943 | |
| NCS | slow convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | 1943 | 1943 | |
| NP | Turkey to Port Said | | | |
| NSF | North Africa to Naples | | | troopships |
| NV | Naples to Augusta, Sicily | | | |
| OM | Oran to Marseilles | 1944 | 1944 | |
| PH | Piraeus to heel of Italy | | | |
| PN | Port Said to Turkey | | | |
| PR | Piraeus to Dardanelles | 1945 | 1945 | |
| Red | Gibraltar to far east | 1939 | 1940 | |
| PR | Dardanelles to Piraeus | 1945 | 1945 | |
| SBF | assault convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | 1943 | 1943 | |
| SBM | assault convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | 1943 | 1943 | |
| SM | Naples to Marseilles | | | |
| SNF | Naples to North Africa | | | fast troopships |
| SR | Freetown to Gibraltar | 1943 | 1944 | |
| TA | Tobruk to Alexandria | | | |
| TC | Tunisia to Corsica | 1943 | 1944 | |
| TE | Gibraltar to North Africa | 1943 | 1943 | |
| TJF | assault convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | 1943 | 1943 | |
| TJM | assault convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | 1943 | 1943 | |
| TJS | assault convoys for Allied invasion of Sicily | 1943 | 1943 |
| TSF | assault convoys for Naples landings | | | |
| TSM | assault convoys for Naples landings | | | |
| TSS | assault convoys for Naples landings | | | |
| TV | Tripoli to Malta | | | |
| TX | Tripoli to Alexandria | | | |
| UGF | Chesapeake Bay to Gibraltar (later Naples) | November 1942 | May 1945 | faster ships (UGF 1 was the Operation Torch invasion convoy) |
| UGS | Chesapeake Bay to Gibraltar (later Port Said) | November 1942 | May 1945 | slower ships |
| VC | Malta to Tobruk | | | |
| VN | Augusta, Sicily or Malta to Naples (OR) Naples to Livorno | | | |
| VT | Malta to Tripoli | | | |
| WX | western desert ports to Alexandria | | | |
| XIF | Alexandria and Port Said to Taranto and Naples | | | |
| XT | Alexandria to Tripoli | | | |
| XTG | Alexandria to Gibraltar via Tripoli | 1943 | 1943 | |
| XW | Alexandria to western desert ports | | | |

## South Atlantic convoys

| Code prefix | South Atlantic routes | First sailing | Last sailing | Notes |
| AS | United States to Suez Canal | 1942 | 1942 | via Freetown |
| BF | Bahia to Freetown | 1943 | | USN escorts |
| BRN | Bahia to Recife northward | late 1942 | | |
| BT | Bahia to Trinidad | November 1942 | July 1943 | |
| CF | Cape Town to British Isles via west Africa | | | little used |
| CN | Cape Town northward to dispersal | | | |
| DBF | Dakar to Freetown via Bathurst (Banjul) Gambia | 1943 | 1943 | |
| DSF | Dakar to Freetown | | | |
| DSL | Dakar to Freetown and Lagos | | | |
| DSP | Dakar to Freetown and Pointe-Noire | | | |
| DST | Dakar to Freetown and Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| E | Trinidad to dispersal southward | | | |
| FB | Freetown to Bahia | | | |
| FFT | Freetown to Trinidad | 1942 | 1943 | |
| FJ | Florianópolis to Rio de Janeiro | | | |
| FSD | Freetown to Dakar | 1944 | 1944 | small craft |
| JF | Rio de Janeiro to Florianópolis | | | |
| JR | Rio de Janeiro to Recife | | | |
| JT | Rio de Janeiro to Trinidad | 1943 | 1945 | |
| LGE | Lagos eastbound | | | local west African traffic |
| LGW | Lagos westbound | | | local west African traffic |
| LM | Lagos to Matadi | | | |
| LS | Lagos to Freetown | | | |
| LSD | Lagos to Dakar via Freetown | | | |
| LTS | Lagos to Freetown via Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| NC | Walvis Bay to Cape Town | | | |
| OSS | Freetown southward | | | southward extension of the corresponding OS convoy |
| OT | Trinidad to North Africa | | | |
| PGE | Pointe-Noire southward | | | local traffic |
| PAD | Pointe-Noire to Dakar via Freetown | | | |
| PT | Paramaribo to Trinidad | | | |
| PTS | Pointe-Noire to Freetown via Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| RJ | Recife to Rio de Janeiro | | | |
| RT | Cape Town to Freetown (OR) Recife to Trinidad | 1941 (African) 1943 (South American) | 1941 | |
| SJ | Santos, São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro | | | |
| ST | Freetown to Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| STC | Freetown to Cape Town via Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| STL | Freetown to Lagos via Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| STP | Freetown to Pointe-Noire via Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| STW | Freetown to Walvis Bay via Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |
| TB | Trinidad to Bahia | | | |
| TF | Trinidad to Freetown | | | |
| TGE | Sekondi-Takoradi and Lagos eastward to dispersal | | | |
| TJ | Trinidad to Rio de Janeiro | | | |
| TLDM | Sekondi-Takoradi to Matadi via Lagos and Douala | | | |
| TO | North Africa to Caribbean | | | |
| TP | Trinidad to Paramaribo | | | |
| TR | Trinidad to Recife | | | |
| TRINIDAD | Trinidad to dispersal southeast | | | |
| TS | Sekondi-Takoradi to Freetown | | | |
| TSD | Sekondi-Takoradi to Dakar via Freetown | | | |
| TV | Trinidad eastward to dispersal | | | |
| WTS | Walvis Bay to Freetown via Sekondi-Takoradi | | | |

## Indian Ocean convoys

| Code Prefix | Indian Ocean routes | First sailing | Last sailing | Number of convoys | Notes |
| AB | Aden to Mumbai | November 1942 | | | |
| ABF | Aden to Mumbai | | | | fast troopship convoys |
| AJ | Aden to Colombo | | | | |
| AK | Aden to Kilindini Harbour | | | | |
| AKD | Aden to Durban via Kilindini Harbour | September 1943 | | | |
| AM | Chittagong to Chennai | | | | |
| AP | Aden to Persian Gulf | Late 1942 | | | |
| AS | United States to Suez Canal | March 1942 | | | via Freetown |
| BA | Mumbai to Aden | May 1941 | November 1942 | | |
| BAF | Mumbai to Aden | | | | fast troopships |
| BC | Beira, Mozambique to Durban (OR) Mumbai to Colombo | July 1942 from Beira - September 1943 from Mumbai | September 1942 from Beira | | |
| BK | Mumbai to Karachi | 1943 | 1943 | | little used |
| BM | Mumbai to Singapore (or Colombo after January 1942) | | | | |
| BN | Mumbai to Suez Canal | 1940 | 1941 | | |
| BP | Mumbai to Persian Gulf | | | | |
| BS | Suez Canal to Aden | 1940 | 1941 | | |
| C | Colombo to dispersal | 1942 | 1942 | | |
| CA | Cape Town southward to dispersal | | | | |
| CB | Durban to Beira, Mozambique | | | | |
| CD | Cape Town to Durban | | | | |
| CF | Colombo to Fremantle, Western Australia | | | | occasional use |
| CH | Chittagong to Kolkata | | | | |
| CJ | Kolkata to Colombo | | | | |
| CM | Cape Town to Aden | | | | military convoys via Kilindini Harbour |
| CX | Colombo to Addu Atoll | | | | {return Addu Atoll to Colombo convoys used same CX designation} |
| DC | Durban to Cape Town | | | | |
| DK | Durban to Kilindini Harbour | | | | |
| DKA | Durban to Aden via Kilindini Harbour | | | | |
| DLM | Durban to Maputo | | | | |
| DM | Durban to Malaya | 1941 | 1942 | 3 | |
| DN | Durban northwards to dispersal | | | | |
| HB | Australia to India | 1945 | 1945 | | troopships |
| HC | Kolkata to Chittagong | | | | |
| JA | Colombo to Aden | | | | |
| JC | Colombo to Kolkata | | | | |
| JM | India to Madagascar via Kilindini Harbour | 1943 | 1943 | | |
| JMG | assault convoy to Malaya | September 1945 | | 1 | |
| JS | Colombo to Singapore | November 1941 | February 1942 | | |
| KA | Kilindini Harbour to Aden | | | | |
| KB | Karachi to Mumbai | | | | |
| KD | Kilindini Harbour to Durban | | | | |
| KM | Kilindini Harbour to Madagascar | | | | |
| KP | Karachi to Persian Gulf | | | | |
| KR | Kolkata and Rakhine State ports to Yangon | 1945 | 1945 | | |
| LMD | Maputo to Durban | | | | |
| MA | Kilindini Harbour to Aden | | | | |
| MC | Aden to Cape Town via Kilindini Harbour and Durban | | | | |
| MD | Madagascar to Durban | | | 1 | |
| MK | Madagascar to Kilindini Harbour | | | | |
| MN | Mauritius to Seychelles | | | | |
| MR | Chennai to Yangon | | | | |
| OW | Australia to India | | | | |
| PA | Persian Gulf to Aden | | | | |
| PB | Persian Gulf to Mumbai | | | | |
| RK | Colombo to Kilindini Harbour (OR) Yangon to Kolkata via Rakhine State | 1944 from Colombo, 1945 from Rangoon | 1944 from Colombo, 1945 from Rangoon | | |
| RM | Yangon to Colombo via Chennai | | | | |
| SD | Seychelles to Madagascar | | | | |
| SJ | Singapore to Colombo | November 1941 | February 1942 | | |
| SM | Jakarta to Fremantle, Western Australia | | | | |
| SR | Kolkata to Yangon | 1941 | 1942 | | |
| SU | Suez Canal to Australia | 1940 | 1941 | | |
| SW | Suez Canal to Kilindini Harbour or Durban | 1940 | 1941 | | |
| US | Australia to Suez Canal | | | | |
| WO | India to Australia | | | | troopships |
| WS | British Isles to Suez Canal and Mumbai | | | | troopships; WS convoys on at least one occasion [WS30, 1943] routed via Freetown and Durban |

## Pacific convoys

| Code prefix | Pacific routes | First sailing | Last sailing | Notes |
| AN | Admiralty Islands to New Guinea | | | |
| BG | Milne Bay to New Guinea (OR) Brisbane to Gladstone, Queensland | | | |
| BN | New Britain to New Guinea | | | |
| BT | Sydney to United States (OR) Brisbane to Townsville, Queensland | 1943 (Sydney to US) | 1944 (Sydney to US) | Sydney to US were troop convoys |
| BV | Brisbane to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| CO | Newcastle, New South Wales to Melbourne and Adelaide | 1942 | 1942 | |
| DG | Thursday Island, Queensland to Merauke | | | |
| DT | Darwin, Northern Territory to Thursday Island, Queensland | | | |
| FM | Milne Bay to Port Moresby | | | |
| GB | New Guinea to Milne Bay | | | |
| GD | Merauke to Thursday Island, Queensland | | | |
| GF | Adelaide to Fremantle, Western Australia | | | |
| GI | New Guinea to Philippines | | | |
| GP | Sydney to Townsville, Queensland and Brisbane | | | |
| GT | Gladstone, Queensland to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| IG | Philippines to New Guinea | | | |
| LQ | Great Barrier Reef to Brisbane | | | |
| MB | Port Moresby to `Fall River` Milne Bay | | | |
| MF | Port Moresby to Milne Bay `Fall River` | | | |
| MS | Melbourne to Singapore | November 1941 | February 1942 | |
| MT | Port Moresby to Townsville, Queensland | 1942 | 1942 | |
| MV | Milne Bay to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| NA | Langemak Bay to Admiralty Islands | | | |
| NB | New Guinea to New Britain | | | |
| NE | New Zealand to Panama Canal | | | |
| NLY | Lingayen Gulf – Jayapura – Leyte | | | |
| NS | New Caledonia to Sydney | | | |
| NT | New Guinea to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| OC | Melbourne to Newcastle, New South Wales | | | |
| PG | Brisbane to Sydney | | | |
| PQ | Townsville, Queensland to Port Moresby | 1942 | 1942 | |
| PT | Pearl Harbor to Tarawa | | | |
| PV | Melbourne to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| QL | Brisbane to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| SN | Sydney to New Caledonia | | | |
| ST | Sydney to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| SV | Sydney to Townsville, Queensland | | | |
| T | Hollandia to Manila | | | |
| TD | Thursday Island, Queensland to Darwin, Northern Territory | | | |
| TD | New Zealand to northern Australia | | | |
| TN | Townsville, Queensland to New Guinea | | | |
| TP | Tarawa to Pearl Harbor | | | |
| TS | Townsville, Queensland to Sydney and Brisbane | | | |
| VB | Townsville, Queensland to Brisbane | | | |
| VK | Sydney to Wellington | | | |
| VS | Townsville, Queensland to Sydney | | | |
| ZT | New Zealand to Sydney | | | |

## Normandy invasion convoys

| Code prefix | Normandy invasion convoys | First sailing | Last sailing | Number of convoys | Notes |
| ATM | Antwerp to River Thames | late 1944 | 1945 | | |
| BEC | Bristol Channel to France | June 1944 | October 1944 | | |
| COC | Plymouth to Brittany | late 1944 | early 1945 | | |
| EBC | Bristol Channel to France | June 1944 | October 1944 | | |
| EBM | Bristol Channel to France | June 1944 | June 1944 | 1 | motor transport convoy |
| ECM | Falmouth, Cornwall to France | June 1944 | early July 1944 | | |
| ECP | Portland Harbour and Solent to Baie de la Seine | June 1944 | October 1944 | | personnel convoys |
| EMM | Belfast to France | June 1944 | July 1944 | 2 | |
| EMP | Belfast to France | July 1944 | July 1944 | 2 | |
| EPM | Portland Harbour to France via Solent | July 1944 | September 1944 | | motor transport convoys |
| EPP | Portland Harbour to France via Solent | July 1944 | September 1944 | | personnel convoys |
| ETC | River Thames to France | June 1944 | October 1944 | | |
| ETM | River Thames to France | June 1944 | October 1944 | | motor transport convoys |
| EWC | Spithead to Normandy | June 1944 | June 1944 | | |
| EWL | Isle of Wight to France | June 1944 | June 1944 | | mainly landings ships and landing craft |
| EWM | Isle of Wight to France | September 1944 | October 1944 | | motor transport convoys |
| EWP | Isle of Wight to France | | | | personnel convoys |
| EXP | | June 1944 | October 1944 | | invasion convoys |
| FBC | Baie de la Seine to Bristol Channel | June 1944 | October 1944 | | |
| FC | France to western England | June 1944 | July 1944 | | |
| FCP | France to western England | June 1944 | July 1944 | | personnel convoys |
| FPM | France to Portland Harbour | | | | motor transport convoys |
| FPP | France to Portland Harbour | July 1944 | August 1944 | | personnel convoys |
| FTC | France to River Thames | 1944 | 1944 | | |
| FTM | France to River Thames | 1944 | 1944 | | motor transport convoys |
| FWC | France to Isle of Wight | June 1944 | | | |
| FWL | France to Isle of Wight | 1944 | 1944 | | landing craft convoys |
| FWM | France to Isle of Wight | June 1944 | July 1944 | | motor transport convoys |
| FWP | France to Isle of Wight | June 1944 | September 1944 | | personnel convoys |
| FXP | France to British Isles | June 1944 | October 1944 | | |
| LU | Humber to Elbe | May 1945 | May 1945 | | |
| MTC | Baie de la Seine to Southend-on-Sea | | | | replaced FTC |
| MTM | Baie de la Seine to Southend-on-Sea | | | | replaced FTM |
| NAP | Dover to France | December 1944 | December 1944 | | |
| NR | Norway to Methil, Fife | 1945 | 1945 | | |
| RN | Methil, Fife to Norway | May 1945 | May 1945 | | |
| TAC | River Thames to Ostend | 1945 | 1945 | | |
| TACA | River Thames to Antwerp | | | | replaced by TAM |
| TAM | River Thames to Antwerp | | | | replaced TACA |
| TAP | River Thames to France | 1945 | 1945 | | |
| TMC | River Thames to France | June 1944 | October 1944 | | |
| TMM | River Thames to France | June 1944 | October 1944 | | motor transport convoys |
| UL | Elbe to Humber | May 1945 | May 1945 | | |
| WAP | | June 1944 | October 1944 | | invasion convoys |
| WDC | | September 1944 | December 1944 | | invasion convoys |
| WEC | Isle of Wight to France | December 1944 | May 1945 | | |
| WEL | Isle of Wight to France | 1944 | 1945 | | landing craft |
| WEP | Isle of Wight to Cherbourg-Octeville | December 1944 | December 1944 | | |
| WFM | | October 1944 | November 1944 | | invasion convoys |
| WMP | Isle of Wight to Arromanches-les-Bains | November 1944 | December 1944 | | |
| WNC | Isle of Wight to Le Havre | December 1944 | May 1945 | | |
| WNL | Isle of Wight to France | April 1945 | May 1945 | | |
| WVP | Isle of Wight to France | December 1944 | May 1945 | | |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Hague 2000a, pp. 120–122.
* ↑ "Norwegian Campaign, World War 2 at Sea, April 1940". Archived from the original on 1 June 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
* ↑ "Norwegian Campaign, World War 2 at Sea, April 1940". Archived from the original on 1 June 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2024.