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CONVOY HX 162

Convoy HX 162 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Nov. 27-1941 and arrived Liverpool on Dec. 11 (Arnold Hague gives 31 ships).
This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations.
Please note that not all the ships have been given a convoy station, but a full list of names can be found at the end of this table (list from Ted Agar).

See also this external page for more complete information on this convoy.

For info, some of the ships in this convoy had previously arrived with the westbound Convoy ON 32.
(See also previous ON convoys)

Br=British, Am=American, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Pol=Polish.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Empire Hawk *
(Br)
21
Empire Ray
(Br)
31
Southern Princess
(Br)
41
Athelcrown*
(Br)
51
Pacific Grove
(Br)
61
71
Dunster Grange
(Br)
81
Primrose Hill
(Br)
91
Fanad Head
(Br)
12
Oporto
(Br)
22
32
42
Pleiades *
(Am)
52
Empire Mica
(Br)
62
Eclipse
(Br)
72
82
Sama
(Norw)
92
Ganges
(Br)
13
Fresno Star
(Br)
23
Høegh Scout
(Norw)
 33
Clausina
(Br)		 43
Mijdrecht
(Du)		 53
Beth *
(Norw)		 63
Benlomond
(Br)		 73
Aruba *
(Du)		 83
Astrell
(Norw)		 93
Brant County
(Norw)
14
City of
Evansville
(Br)		 24
Teesbank *
(Br)		 34
Katy
(Norw)		 44 54
Empire Oryx
(Br)		 64
Empire Eagle *
(Br)		 74
Lechistan
(Pol)		 84
Skandinavia
(Norw)		 94
Clan Macnair *
(Br)
15 25 35 45 55
Athelprince
(Br)		 65 75 85
Toltén *
(Br)		 95


Notes:
2 ships were cancelled; British Bretwalda (sailed in the next convoy, HX 163) and the Panamanian Norvinn (Norw. managers, therefore listed on this site). There's a note that says "On Nov. 28th the Glenorga and Manchester Commerce came in reporting that they had left a convoy (not this one, I would assume) but sailed again almost immediately".

* Beth returned to port and later joined the next convoy. According to the external site that I've linked to in the above table, Aruba, Empire Eagle, Empire Hawk, Clan Macnair, Pleiades, and Toltén also returned to port, while Athelcrown and Teesbank became stragglers and later joined the slow Convoy SC 57.

List of ships according to sequence of departure (35 ships are listed here):
The first to leave was the Norwegian Bello at 10:05 (no pennant No. given) followed by the British Pacific Grove, Clan Macnair, Benlomond, Fresno Star, Dunster Grange, Empire Eagle, Norwegian Astrell, British Empire Ray (Hurricane J), Dutch Mijdrecht, Norwegian Brant County, British Primrose Hill (Hurricane LUN), Empire Hawk, City of Evansville, Norwegian Katy, Sama and Skandinavia (with a notation "brick colored bridge, yellow stack, was grey when came in), British Teesbank, Empire Oryx, Polish Lechistan, British Eclipse, Clausina (given as Norwegian, but this can't be right - was originally Dutch - transferred in 1939 to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., Gt. Britain) British Fanad Head, Athelcrown, Ganges, Oporto, Empire Mica, Norwegian Beth, American Pleiades, Dutch Aruba, Norwegian Høegh Scout (she's listed as British on this form), British Southern Princess, American Eagle (no No. given), British Toltén and Athelprince, the latter leaving at 15:00.

Use the alphabet index below to access further information on the Norwegian ships mentioned here.

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