Escorting Convoys on the Triangle Run

I was posted to a corvette, HMCS Nanaimo. Convoy escort duty, that was primarily the job that they were called to do, called upon to do. That was a “Triangle Run” that I was on, it just didn’t mean direct from Halifax to Newfoundland, from Newfoundland to New York. It was called the “Triangle Run” because those were the three main ports. We normally met the convoy coming from the United Kingdom, oh I guess about 200 miles northeast of Newfoundland, mostly unloaded merchant ships that had unloaded their cargo in the UK, Scotland. Sometimes the convoys, if there was submarines reported on the northern route, the convoys would be rerouted to the southern route and it was a couple hundred miles southeast of Newfoundland. Next would be a convoy with loaded ships coming out of Halifax, New York, Boston, some from Sydney. Our duty was to form up and escort then in an easterly direction to be met by the canadian corvettes coming out of Londonderry, Ireland and other ports.