'Linseed' was a British convoy operation to move one Italian and four Norwegian merchant vessels from Naples in mainland Italy to Augusta in Sicily (18/20 April 1944).
The ships were the Italian 2,366-ton Fanny Brunner and the Norwegian 1,304-ton Audun, 1,138-ton Bust, 1,590-ton Dux and 1,128-ton Gudrun.