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1 Pound - Elizabeth II Convoy SL 64, Borgestad
| Issuer | Gibraltar Government |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Convoy SL 64 was a slow westbound Atlantic convoy attacked in October 1940 by a wolfpack operating under Admiral Dönitz's expanding tonnage war strategy. The attack — coordinated across multiple nights — resulted in the loss of several vessels and remains one of the grimmer early examples of wolfpack tactics achieving sustained contact with a single convoy. The Borgestad was a Norwegian merchant ship, one of many Norwegian vessels that continued sailing under Allied command after Germany's occupation of Norway in April 1940.
Gibraltar's long-running WWII convoy commemorative program has produced dozens of these silver pound issues, each tied to a specific vessel or action.