ASV squadrons in the Mediterranean in 1942
 

What squadrons were employed on allied ASV duties in the Mediterranean in 1942 and what types were used?

Suggest you have a look at this website: https://uboat.net/allies/aircraft/hudson.htm

A quick look at Hudson Ops in Med 1942 reveals U Boat losses down to 233 Squadron, 500 Squadron and 595 Squadron.

Haven't checked out other types - Over to You !

Was the Hudson ASV equipped? My interest is to do with attacks on convoys rather than Uboats.

Above website says Hudsons first equipped with ASV in 1940 for anti-sub ops. I can't help you - better you check out the squadrons I quoted.

Sources talk about an ASV Wellington being captured but without details.

Coastal Command Beaufighter Sqns in the Med in 1942:
No. 227
Mk I and VI: August 1942 – August 1944; Mk X and XI: September 1943 – August 1944
Anti-shipping duties from Malta and later Egypt
No. 252
Coastal Command’s first Beaufighter squadron
Mk I: December 1940-December 1942; Mk VI: November 1942-April 1944; Mk X: January 1944-December 1946; Mk XI: June 1943-January 1944
May 1941-: Anti shipping duties from Malta, then Egypt, then Libya

221 Squadron were in the Med with Wellingtons in 1942.........and I expect there were other Squadrons too.......

IIRC 221 had Wellington Mk VIIIs and certainly did anti-shipping work ( my father was RAF Malta Ground Crew) .

Fleet Air Arm Swordfish were fitted with ASV - not sure if the ones so equipped operated in the Med.

The squadrons were used for Operation Pigeon which was used to home submarines onto shipping. Any information about this will be gratefully received plus any photographs of the ASV kit.

In one later classic case 221 shadowed a surfaced sub which turned out afterwards to hsve been a U-boat stuck on the surface.

Not sure when they got involved by Alfred Price in his book Aircraft Versus Submarine logs a USN PBY attack on a U boat passing though the straights of Gibraltar. The Catalina was equipped with rearwards firing anti sub munitions and bracketed the U boat.

That's a coincidence, Haraka! My other half's late father was also groundcrew on 221 Sqn. She doesn't have many photos of him, but he certainly served in Malta with 221 in 1942.