CONVOY HX 160
Convoy HX 160 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Nov. 15-1941 and arrived Liverpool on the 30th (Arnold Hague gives 62 ships).
This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations.
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| Received from Ted Agar and Ole H. Loftaas.
For info, a few of the ships in this convoy had previously arrived with the westbound convoy ON 26.
Br=British, Am=American, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Pa=Panamanian, Ru=Russian.
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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12
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11
Empire
Spray
(Br)
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21
Empire
Faith
(Br)
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31
Eastern
City
(Br)
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41
Cairnesk
(Br)
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51
Dorelian
(Br)
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61
City of
Athens
(Br)
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71
Manchester
Merchant
(Br)
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81
Cristales
(Br)
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91
Myrtlebank
(Br)
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101
Daghestan
(Br)
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111
Empire
Tide
(Br) |
121
Empire
Spring
(Br) |
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12
Lossiebank
(Br)
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22
British Courage
(Br)
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32
British
Integrity
(Br)
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42
Toorak
(Br)
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52
Laurelwood
(Br)
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62
Beaverhill
(Br)
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72
Dolabella
(Br)
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82
San Demetrio
(Br)
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92
San Ernesto
(Br)
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102
Empire Emerald
(Br)
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112
British Resolution
(Br) |
122
Rhesus
(Br) |
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13
Nicoya
(Br)
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23
Vav*
(Norw)
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33
Tortuguero
(Br) |
43
Grena
(Norw) |
53
Kollskegg
(Norw) |
63
British Sincerity
(Br) |
73
Belinda
(Norw) |
83
British Endurance
(Br) |
93
Diplodon
(Br) |
103
Bayano
(Br) |
113
Delphinula
(Br) |
123
Glenbank
(Br) |
14
Sagaing
(Br) |
24
Hamlet
(Norw) |
34
Thomas H.
Wheeler
(Am) |
44
Empire Mica
(Br) |
54
Fagerfjell
(Norw) |
64
Solarium
(Br) |
74
Nueva Andalucia
(Norw) |
84
Athelmonarch
(Br) |
94
Schuylkill
(Br) |
104
Malvina *
(Du) |
114
Macuba
(Du) |
124
Empire
Bittern
(Br) |
15
Mandanau
(Du) |
25
Elona **
(Br) |
35
Cold Harbour
(Pa) |
45
Aguila
(Br) |
55
Mount
Evans **
(Pa) |
65
Dardanus
(Br) |
75
Surrey
(Br) |
85
Empire
Puma
(Br) |
95
Heranger
(Norw) |
105
Stuart
Prince
(Br) |
115
Buenos Aires
(Norw) |
125
Westland
(Du) |
16
Pandorian
(Br) |
26
Dekabrist
**(Ru) |
36 |
46 |
56 |
66 |
76 |
86
Columbia Star
(Br) |
96 |
106 |
116
Glenbeg
(Br) |
126
Delfshaven
(Du) |
* See also note in table for Convoy SC 54 re Malvina.
** Elona, Mount Evans and Dekabrist subsequently joined Convoy PQ 6, which left Hvalfjord (Iceland) for Archangel on Dec. 8-1941.
* Vav may have returned? She shows up again in the next convoy, HX 161.
Also, a note for Convoy SC 55 states that Mount Rhodope, sailing in that convoy, had originally started out in HX 160.
The Rescue Vessel Toward was also with this convoy for a while, from joining (Iceland) to Clyde, Nov. 26-Nov. 30. She had been with Convoy ON 37 from Clyde until detached to Iceland Nov. 16-Nov. 23, and was on her 15th voyage as Rescue Vessel, having been requisitioned as such in Dec.-1940. ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).
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Notes:
Commodore was in Manchester Merchant, Vice Commodore in Cairnesk, Rear Commodore in City of Athens.
Clyde Commodore: In Dorelian.
Belfast Commodore: In Myrtlebank.
A message in my Guestbook suggests that British Confidence may have been in HX 160. This ship is also listed in HX 148, which had arrived Liverpool on Sept. 17-1941, and also appears in HX 159, which sailed from Halifax on Nov. 8. Would she have had time to go to England, discharge her cargo, then go back across the ocean, load another cargo to join HX 159 on Nov. 8, or did she indeed join HX 160?
The convoy originally had 62 ships, but 3 were cancelled, namely the Norwegian Nueva Andalucia, Panamanian Cold Harbor and British Empire Mica. Cold Harbor is listed in the slow Convoy SC 57, Nov. 28, while Nueva Andalucia joined HX 161 and Empire Mica shows up again in HX 162.
The list from Ted Agar states that there were a record number of Catapult freighters in this convoy, 4 went out together and 2 later - Empire Spray, Empire Faith, Empire Tide and Daghestan, then Empire Spring and Eastern City.
The main convoy started at 10:12, but 5 ships went out early (starting at 08:10); they were:
The Norwegian Fagerfjell, the Russian Dekabrist (with 2 bombers on deck - later joined Convoy PQ 6), British Empire Emerald and Aguila, and the Norwegian Buenos Aires.
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List of ships (main convoy) according to sequence of departure Halifax (note that not all ships are named here):
The British Manchester Merchant, unnamed British tanker, Bayano (liner, with civilians and children aboard), Toorak (Hong Kong), Empire Spray (Hurricane NJR), Empire Faith (Hurricane XSJ), Empire Tide (Hurricane NJL), Daghestan (Hurricane J??), Dardanus, followed by 3 unnamed British tankers, then the American Thomas H. Wheeler, another unnamed British tanker, Stuart Prince, Beaverhill, unnamed tanker (Br.), Glenbeg, unnamed freighter, unnamed tanker, unnamed freighter (all British) and Tortuguero, an unnamed Norwegian tanker, unnamed freighter (no nationality given), the British British Integrity, an unnamed British freighter, Empire Bittern, Empire Spring (Hurricane NJO), Schuylkill, City of Athens, Nicoya, Laurelwood, Empire Puma (3 bombers on deck), 2 unnamed British tankers, an unnamed Norwegian tanker followed by the Dutch Mandanau, a British liner, Rhesus (also a liner), an unnamed British freighter and a tanker, then another freighter (no nationality given), Norwegian Heranger, Dutch Delfshaven (Mosquito boats, R187, R188, R189, R191), British Sagaing (a few airmen, naval ratings and civilians), Norwegian Belinda, Dutch Malvina and Westland, British Solarium, Eastern City (Hurricane NJG), Norwegian Hamlet, Panamanian Mount Evans, British Elona, then Lossiebank as the last ship to leave at 13:45.
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