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CONVOY HX 170
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Departed Halifax on Jan. 13-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 28th (Arnold Hague gives 29 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. Quite a few of the ships are unnamed, but this external page has more complete information.
Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Swe=Swedish, Am=American, Du=Dutch. |
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11
Daghestan (Br) |
21
Voco (Br) |
31
freighter (Br) |
41
tanker |
51
Cristales (Br) |
61
Peshawur (Br) |
71
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81
Clan Macpherson (Br) |
91
Empire Spray (Br) |
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12
Empire Shearwater (Br) |
22
tanker (Norw) |
32
Idefjord (Norw) |
42
Kaaparen (Swe) |
52
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62
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72
tanker (Br) |
82
tanker (Norw) |
92
Ocean Vigil* (Br) |
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13
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23
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33 tanker (Br) |
43 Hammaren (Swe) |
53 tanker (Norw) |
63 tanker (Br) |
73 freighter (Norw) |
83 Eidanger (Norw) |
93 Ulysses (Du) |
| 14 City of Flint (Am) |
24 Rapidan (Am) |
34 Sovac (Br) |
44 Vaalaren (Swe) |
54 | 64 | 74 Montevideo (Norw) |
84 | 94 |
Notes: One of the unnamed Norwegian tankers above may have been Egda which had been scheduled for Convoy HX 169 but was cancelled. I say this because she was in the westbound convoy ON 65 which departed Liverpool on Febr. 8 - see my text under M/T Egda. (The Norwegian Eidanger had also originally been scheduled for HX 169, but was also cancelled). The ships departed in the following sequence: The first ship to leave was Cristales (flagship) at 09:47 and with a few minutes between each ship - Peshawur, Voco, a tanker, Eidanger, Hammaren, Clan Mcpherson, a Norwegian tanker followed by 2 British tankers, a Norwegian freighter and another British tanker, then Ocean Vigil*, Idefjord, Kaaparen (2 open decks under bridge), Ulysses, City of Flint (with a notation saying "this ship brought survivors of the Athenia into Halifax September 1939), 2 Norwegian tankers, Vaalaren, Empire Shearwater, Rapidan (US Navy tanker), Empire Spray (NJA on Hurricane, high metal tower), Montevideo, Sovac, Daghestan (LUS on her Hurricane, her whole bow is patched), then the last ship to leave was a British freighter at 14:24.
The American coast guard cutter Alexander Hamilton / W 34 (dispersed from convoy) was torpedoed by U-132 on Jan. 29. More information on each of the Norwegian ships mentioned in this convoy can be found on this website - see alphabet index below. Related external link: To the next HX convoy in my list HX 171 |
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