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CONVOY HX 159

Convoy HX 159 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Nov. 8-1941 and arrived Liverpool on the 23rd (Arnold Hague says 32 ships).
This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations.
List received from Ted Agar.

Ships joining from Halifax only are included. The stations given below are at time of departure, and may have changed as the voyage progressed.

Note that a few of the ships have not been given a convoy station - more ships are named in Notes below. See also this external page for more complete information.

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Du=Dutch, Pa=Panamanian.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Turkistan
(Br)
21
Tanker
(Br)
31
British Ardour
(Br)
41
British Confidence *
(Br)
51
61
Sovac
(Br)
71
Albion Star
(Br)
81
91
Taybank
(Br)
12
City of Manila
(Br)
22
Tanker
(?)
32
Tanker
(Norw)
42
Tanker
(Br)
52
Tanker
(Br)
62
Tanker
(Du)
72
Innerøy
(Norw)
82
Tanker
(Br)
92
Freighter
(Br)
13
Slemmestad
(Norw)
23
Kaldfonn
(Norw)
 33
Glittre
(Norw)		 43
Nueva Granada
(Norw)		 53
Idefjord
(Norw)		 63
Freighter
(Br)		 73 83
Norvik
(Pa)		 93
Freighter
(Br)
14 24 34 44
Alcedo
(Pa)		 54 64
Manchester Division
(Br)		 74 84 94
Grey County
(Norw)
There's a note in connection with the slow Convoy SC 54 saying that H. H. Rogers, sailing in that convoy, came from HX 159.


* A message in my Guestbook suggests that British Confidence may have been one of the unnamed tankers in HX 160. (This ship is also mentioned in HX 148, which arrived Liverpool on Sept. 17-1941). It looks like she may have cancelled, and sailed in HX 160 instead(?)

The ships departed Halifax in the following order:
The first vessel to leave at 11:15 was the British Princesa (white fishtail with blue cross - Commodore Vesssel), followed 3 minutes later by the British Daltonhall and with a few minutes between each ship thereafter British Ardour, Grey County, Turkestan, Albion Star, a Dutch tanker, then Alcedo and a British freighter (in station 93, C on stack), a Norwegian tanker (32), then Glittre followed by 3 British tankers and a British freighter (station 92, 5 masts), Innerøy, Idefjord (at 12:17).

Then there's a notation saying "British Hussar (Br. tanker), Empire Bittern and Eurybates (Br. freighter) went out in convoy today, but most of the ships did not have names on them".

At 12:21 a tanker went out - no nationality given - then a British tanker followed by Sovac (S on stack) and a British freighter, Nueva Granada (Texaco on stack, also "T"), Slemmestad, Taybank, British Confidence, City of Manila, Manchester Division, Norvik (Panamanian flag, Norwegian managers and therefore, listed on this website). The last vessel to leave at 14:12 was the Norwegian Kaldfonn.

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