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CONVOY HX 153
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Departed Halifax on Oct. 5-1941 with 56 ships and arrived Liverpool on the 19th (Arnold Hague says 56 ships). This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations. |
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| (List received from Ted Agar, based on a diary).
See also this external page for more complete information. Br=British, Am=American, Bel=Belgian, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Fr=French. For info, some of the ships in this convoy had previously arrived with the westbound Convoy ON 15. |
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11
City of Dunkirk (Br) |
21
John A. Brown (Br) |
31
British Engineer (Br) |
41
Norwegian (Br) |
51
Port Hunter (Br) |
61
Rimutaka (Br) |
71
Rangitata (Br) |
81
Dromore (Br) |
91
Autolycus (Br) |
101
Novelist (Br) |
111 City of Cairo (Br) |
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12
Clan Cameron (Br) |
22
San Eliseo (Br) |
32
City of Fort Worth (Am) |
42
Eagle (Am) |
52
Empire Salvage (Br) |
62
Southern Princess (Br) |
72
Southern Empress (Br) |
82
Clan Macarthur (Br) |
92
D. L. Harper (Br) |
102
Empire Opal (Br) |
112 Winnipeg (Fr - later Br) |
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13
Tureby (Br) |
23
British Statesman (Br) |
33 Cordelia (Br) |
43 Inverilen (Br) |
53 Katy (Norw) |
63 | 73 Lucellum (Br) |
83 Laurent Meeus (Bel) |
93 Ferncastle (Norw) |
103 James J. Maguire (Br) |
113 Gyda (Br) |
| 14 Sembilan (Du) |
24 Haakon Hauan (Norw) |
34 Imperial Transport (Br) |
44 Norw. tanker (See Notes) |
54 | 64 | 74 Bonneville* (Norw) |
84 Laplace (Br) |
94 Empire Flint (Br) |
104 Algonquin (Br) |
114 Temeraire (Norw) |
| 15 Norton* (Br) |
25 San Delfino (Br) |
35 Wichita Falls (Am) |
45 British Prestige (Br) |
55 Sveve (Norw) |
65 | 75 Gandia (Bel) |
85 Lista (Norw) |
95 Prins Willem (Du) |
105 Santos (Norw) |
115 Koenjit (Du) |
| 16 | 26 | 36 Chesapeake (Br) |
46 Botavon (Br) |
56 Moveria (Br) |
66 | 76 | 86 | 96 | 106 | 116 |
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Tureby - a Danish ship under Ministry of War Transport? |
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Notes: * According to the external website that I've linked to in the above table, Bonneville returned to port (Sydney, C.B.), later joining Convoy SC 49 from there (external link). The British Norton (listed in station 16 at the site) is also said to have returned to port (Sydney, C.B.), later joining Convoy SC 50, which left Sydney, C.B. on Oct. 17-1941. According to the same site, the Norwegian ship in station 44 was Andrea Brøvig. |
| The ships left port in the following order: The Norwegian Temeraire departed at 07:32, followed by the British Rimutaka, Rangitata, San Eliseo, Southern Empress, Clan Cameron (from HX 152), City of Dunkirk, Norwegian Haakon Hauan, British Empire Flint, Dromore, Cordelia, the American City of Fort Worth, the British Tureby, Laplace, American Eagle, an unnamed Norwegian tanker with a B on its stack (as mentioned, this was Andrea Brøvig) followed by the Norwegian Sveve, Belgian Gandia, British James J. Maguire (this ship is listed as Panamanian in "The Worlds Merchant Fleets 1939" by R. W. Jordan. In the British section he has a note that says Oriental Tankers Ltd., Hong Kong, who owned this ship was a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey), Norwegian Ferncastle, British Norton, John A. Brown, Southern Princess, Dutch Sembilan, British Lucellum, Norwegian Bonneville, the British British Engineer, Moveria, French Winnipeg, British Empire Opal, the Norwegian Lista, the British Norwegian, British Statesman, Novelist, Gyda, San Delfino, Botavon, Empire Salvage, the Norwegian Katy, the British British Prestige and Inverilen, Dutch Koenjit, the Belgian Laurent Meeus (had initially been scheduled for the previous Convoy HX 152), the American Wichita Falls, the British Algonquin, City of Cairo, D. L. Harper, Dutch Prins Willem, the British Port Hunter, Chesapeake, Autolycus, Clan Macarthur and Imperial Transport. The last ship to go out was the Norwegian Santos at 13:35. All the Norwegian ships mentioned here are further discussed on this website; see the alphabet index below for more information on them, or go to the Master Ship Index. Arnold Hague ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945") says Zaafaran was with this convoy, from joining to Clyde Oct. 16 to Oct. 17-1941. She had been with Convoy ON 23 from Clyde until detached to Iceland, Oct. 4-Oct. 12 and was on her 10th voyage as rescue vessel (having been requisitioned as such in Oct.-1940). Convoy ON 23 will be added, in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all ON convoys. Related external link: To the next HX convoy in my list HX 154 |
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