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CONVOY HX 154
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Departed Halifax on Oct. 10-1941 with 51 ships and arrived Liverpool on the 23rd (Arnold Hague). 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).
The British Llangibby Castle was also in this convoy - station number not given. For more complete info (with escorts), please see this external page about Convoy HX 154. For info, some of the ships in this convoy had previously arrived with the westbound Convoy ON 15. Br=British, Am=American, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian. |
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11
City of Agra (Br) |
21
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31
Port Auckland (Br) |
41
freighter |
51
Explorer (Br) |
61
Corner Brook (Br) |
71
Manchester Commerce (Br) |
81
tanker |
91
Primrose Hill (Br) |
101
Silvermaple (Br) |
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12
British freighter |
22
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32
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42
HMS Almaack (Am) |
52
Nagara (Br) |
62
British freighter |
72
Diala (Br) |
82
Charles F. Meyer (Br) |
92
Regent Panther (Br) |
102
Cornwall (Br) |
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13
Jutland (Br) |
23
Cistula (Du) |
33 Hadnot (Am) |
43 W. E. Hutton (Am) |
53 Hilda Knudsen (Norw) |
63 Bintang (Du) |
73 Samuel Bakke (Norw) |
83 Polarsol (Norw) |
93 British Yeoman (Br) |
103 Glenogle (Br) |
| 14 British tanker |
24 Athelknight (Br) |
34 Kaia Knudsen (Norw) |
44 Norw. tanker |
54 Ranja (Norw) |
64 | 74 N. T. Nielsen Alonso (Norw) |
84 Mijdrecht (Du) |
94 Skiensfjord (Norw) |
104 Antilochus (Br) |
| 15 Toronto (Norw) |
25 Noreg (Norw) |
35 British Diligence (Br) |
45 British freighter |
55 Waterland (Du) |
65 British freighter |
75 Basil (Br) |
85 | 95 Tai Shan (Norw) |
105 Emma Bakke (Norw) |
| 16 | 26 | 36 | 46 | 56 | 66 | 76 | 86 Magdala (Du) |
96 | 106 |
| According to Arnold Hague (via external lin provided above), the unnamed Norwegian tanker in station 44 was Svenør. In station 41 - British Corinaldo In station 81 - British Empire Sapphire In station 12 - British Empire Sailor In station 62 - British Lancaster Castle In station 14 - British Athelviscount In station 45 - British Empire Mallory, returned to port (Sydney, C.B.), joined Convoy SC 50, Oct. 17. In station 65 - British Orestes |
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Complete list of ships according to sequence of departure: The British Corner Brook was the first to leave at 11:12, followed a few minutes later by Nagara, then the American Hadnot, Norwegian Ranja, British Athelknight and an unnamed British freighter, the Norwegian Tai Shan (4 bombers on deck), British Regent Panther, Dutch Waterland (3 bombers), another unnamed British freighter followed by the British Port Auckland, Norwegian Hilda Knudsen and Samuel Bakke, British Cornwall, Britsh Yeoman, Primrose Hill, Norwegian Emma Bakke, British Glenogle (2 bombers), unnamed British freighter, Charles F. Meyer, Manchester Commerce, Explorer (2 bombers), Norwegian Polarsol and Skiensfjord followed by an unnamed British tanker, Dutch Cistula, British City of Agra, American W. E. Hutton, British Jutland, the Norwegian whale factory N. T. Nielsen-Alonso, Dutch Bintang, British Basil, then an unnamed Norwegian tanker and an unnamed, camouflaged tanker (nationality not given), the British Silvermaple, Norwegian Kaia Knudsen, the British British Diligence, Norwegian Toronto, American Almaack with airmen and soldiers, British Antilochus, Dutch Mijdrecht, unnamed freighter (no nationality given), British Diala, another unnamed freighter (British), the British Llangibby Castle, Dutch Magdala and the last to leave was the Norwegian Noreg at 15:02. Use the alphabet index below to find further information on the Norwegian ships mentioned here. Arnold Hague ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945") says that the rescue ship Perth was with this convoy, from joining to Clyde Oct. 19 to Oct. 22-1941. She had been with Convoy ON 25 from Loch Ewe to detachment Oct. 12-16 on her 9th voyage as rescue vessel (having been requisitioned as such in Oct.-1940).
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