For info, some of the ships in this convoy later returned to the U.S. with Convoy ON 14, others are listed in ON 15.

Br=British, Am=American, Du=Dutch, Po=Polish, Norw=Norwegian, Gr=Greek.

MOWT = Ministry of War Transport.

Empire
Ray
(Br)

Saintonge
(Fr [Br]*)

Southern
Empress
(Br)

Treminnard
(Br)

Carmelfjell
(Norw)

Empire
Spring
(Br)

Anna
Mazaraki
(Gr)

List of ships according to sequence of departure Halifax:
The first ship to leave (at 11:00) was the British Madura, followed a few minutes later by the British Iroquois, Eulima, Athelviscount, Aymeric, Bellhaven, San Arcadio, British Dominion, Trojan Star, the Dutch Magdala, Swedish Tisnaren, the British Chesapeake, Norwegian Belinda, British Charles L. D. (French/under British control?), Dutch Kedoe, a French tanker, British Corbis, Athelknight, Egyptian Prince, Silverguava, Dutch Ceronia, British Kirkpool, Jean L. D. (French/under British control?), Southern Empress, Inverilen, King Neptune, Empire Ibex, Norwegian Thorshavn and Mosli, British Baron Ogilvy, Empire Opal, Regent Lion, Nyanza, Novelist, Norwegian Andrea Brøvig, British Empire Shearwater, Pacific Exporter, Dutch Ganymedes, British Teddington, Greek Anna Mazaraki, British Port Dunedin, Norwegian Katy, British Celtic Monarch, unnamed Norwegian tanker (see below), British Grainton, City of Cardiff, Empire Lapwing, Losada, Polish Zagloba, British Empire Spring, Malayan Prince, Lacklan, Empire Ray, Dutch Gaasterkerk and the escorting HMS Wolfe which left Pier 23 at 16:00 and followed the convoy to sea. (At 15:10 there's a notation that a tanker "goes out"; whether this means that the tanker goes out to sea, or whether it leaves the convoy I cannot say).

*Saintonge was originally the Danish Henning Mærsk, sold to France in 1939, sailed under The Ministry of War Transport from 1940, back to France 1945 (R. W. Jordan).

**Tony gives me station 105 for Katy, this could simply mean she moved into that station from 125 later on. Also, he gives station 85 for Carmelfjell, which conflicts with Baron Ogilvy; again this could mean that there was a change in positions as the convoy progressed. As will be noticed some ships, including the Norwegian Petter, Ravnefjell, Carmelfjell, Primero, Benwood and Salamis, are not mentioned in the list above, which could mean that these vessels joined from a feeder convoy later, or Petter could possibly be the unnamed tanker mentioned in the list. When the additional ships in Tony's list are added, there are 73 ships. All the Norwegian vessels can be found on this website under their respective letters of the alphabet.

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