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CONVOY HX 169
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Departed Halifax on Jan. 8-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 23rd (Arnold Hague gives 36 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. (The stations given below are at time of departure, and may have changed as the voyage progressed).
For more complete information, please go to this external page. Br=British, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Bel=Belgian, Pa=Panamanian, Ru=Russian. |
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11
Bayano (Br) |
21
Tilapa (Br) |
31
Corrales (Br) |
41
Ville d'Anvers (Bel) |
51
Manchester Trader (Br) |
61
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71
Beaverhill (Br) |
81
Freighter (Br) |
91
Australia Star (Br) |
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12
Zuiderkerk (Du) |
22
Mangkalihat (Du) |
32
Tanker (Br) |
42
Tanker (Norw) |
52
Tanker (Br) |
62
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72
Tanker (Br) |
82
Athelvictor (Br) |
92
Mentor (Br) |
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13
Suriname (Du) |
23
Palembang (Du) |
33 Tanker (Br) |
43 Amsterdam* (Du) |
53 Clavella (Du) |
63 | 73 Tanker (Br) |
83 Stiklestad (Norw) |
93 Troubadour (Norw) |
| 14 Freighter (Pa) |
24 | 34 Tanker (Norw) |
44 Tanker (Norw) |
54 Taria (Du) |
64 Tankexpress (Norw) |
74 Thorshov (Norw) |
84 | 94 Freighter (Norw) |
| 15 Tbilisi** (Ru) |
25 | 35 Tanker (Br) |
45 Tanker (Br) |
55 Moena (Du) |
65 Brimanger (Norw) |
75 Petter (Norw) |
85 | 95 |
| * Amsterdam sailed instead in the slow Convoy SC 66 on Jan. 23.
** Joined Convoy PQ 9/PQ 10 A notation states "No catapult freighters went out in convoy today. 39 ships went out in the convoy. Originally there were 42 but 3 were cancelled: Egda (Norw), Eidanger (Norw) and Athelqueen (Br. tanker)".
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| The ships departed in the following sequence: The first vessel to leave at 10:10 was the British Tilapa, followed 2 minutes later by the British Manchester Trader (Flagship - I assume this means she was the Commodore Ship), and - with a few minutes between each ship- the British freighters Corrales and Beaverhill, the Belgian passenger vessel Ville d'Anvers, the British freighter Australia Star, an unnamed British tanker (72), the Norwegian tanker Petter, 2 unnamed British tankers (52 and 35), the Norwegian tanker Stiklestad and the Norwegian freighter Brimanger (LDKB), the Dutch freighter Zuiderkerk (PIYU), an unnamed British tanker (73), unnamed Norwegian freighter (94), the Dutch freighter Mangkalihat followed by 2 unnamed British tankers (32 and 45), the British passenger vessel Bayano, an unnamed British tanker (33), the British tanker Athelvictor, the Dutch tanker Clavella and the Dutch passenger vessel Suriname, an unnamed Norwegian tanker (34), the Norwegian freighter Troubadour (crated aircraft on deck), the Dutch freighter Palembang (PGQE), the Dutch tanker Taria, an unnamed British freighter (81), a Panamanian freighter, the Russian freighter Tbilisi (OUXB), the Dutch tanker Amsterdam, the Dutch freighter Moena (PGAO), and unnamed Norwegian tanker (44), the British passenger vessel Mentor followed 6 mins later, at 13:15, by an unnamed Norwegian tanker (42). For 14:00 it says: "Tankexpress, Norse tanker, 69. After she passed the Tower she took down her convoy flags and hoisted "F". Then she rang up 64" (in other words, she must have had the wrong pennants up). The last ship to leave at 15:00 was the Norwegian tanker Thorshov (LJBM). All the Norwegian ships mentioned here are further discussed in the alphabetical ship lists of this website. Rescue Ship for the last part of the way was Perth, on her 12th voyage as rescue vessel, having been requisitioned as such on Oct. 14-1940. She had started this journey from Clyde on Jan. 9 with Convoy ON 55 until detached on Jan. 15, then joined HX 169 on Jan. 17 ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague). To the next HX convoy in my list HX 170 |
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