Not all the convoy stations are known; please note that more ships are named further down on this page. This info may be incomplete - see also this external page for more information.

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Swe=Swedish, Am=American, Bel=Belgian, Du=Dutch, Can=Canadian.

or

Jean Jadot?
(Bel)

* It looks like Vinland instead sailed in the slow Convoy SC 66 on Jan. 23 - follow link for info.

Also, the Honduran Mana appears to have been scheduled for this convoy, but did not sail - see Convoy SC 67.

The ships left Halifax in the following sequence:

The first ship to leave was Tekoa at 09:36 and with a few minutes between each ship - Grey County (with a notation that says: "Goes north". No convoy station has been given to this Norwegian ship, and she shows up in the slow Convoy SC 68 on Febr. 4-1942, so appears to have returned to port in order to join SC 68 later), Manchester Division (Commodore vessel), Rafana, Arabian Prince, Delphinula, a Norwegian tanker, a Swedish freighter, followed by 2 Norwegian freighters, City of Lille, Corbis, a Norwegian tanker, a British tanker, Fort Ville Marie, Skandinavia, a British freighter, a British tanker, Prins Willem III, Winnipeg (with crated aircraft on deck), a British freighter, Fjordaas, Stuart Prince (red and white life rafts, brown crates on deck), a Norwegian tanker, a British ship with passenger accommodation, large flag, 2 liferafts on each side of bridge (this may have been Glenstrae? see * below), British tanker, a Swedish freighter, then Vinland (with a notation: "She is signalling as she comes along and leaves the convoy and anchors in stream off the Federal Tower - as mentioned, she's listed as sailing in the slow Convoy SC 66 which departed Hallifax on Jan. 23-1942 and arrived Liverpool on Febr. 9). Then a British tanker departed followed by a Norwegian tanker and another British tanker and Jean Jadot, then Empire Faith left at 13:14.

The following ships are also listed as having gone out that day, but they have no pendant number, and I'm not sure whether they were all part of this convoy:

The Norwegian Nueva Andalucia, Kristianiafjord, Glittre, Rio Novo, Belinda, Sama, Kollbjørg, Strinda and Thorhild, all listed on this website, see the alphabet index at the end of this page.

The British Pacific Exporter, Pacific Star, Empire Druid, Montcalm (CGS), Ancylus, Arabistan, City of Canberra, *Glenstrae, Empire Silver, Empire Reindeer, Anadara, Diloma, Mahana and the Canadian Bic Island. There's also a Saint Onge, but no nationality is given (a lot of the Saint ships were French, though some were British). 5 of these ships were tankers, and there are 5 unnamed British tankers in the sequence list above, but I don't know where each one belongs in the table.

The Dutch Maaskerk, Mirza, Curacao.

The Panamanian North King, El Estero.

The Swedish Agra, Axel Johnson.

The Russian Ashkabad.

As can be seen there are16 unnamed ships in the departure list but there are 32 named ships that departed on the same day. Ted thinks some of them must have been Westbound vessels, one of them being the Dutch Maaskerk, as she sailed in convoy HX 172 on the 26th. Strinda might also be among them, because she can also be found in the next convoy out (HX 172) on the 26th, as can several of the other ships mentioned above; see link below (they could not have been in both convoys to England). I will update this page if more information becomes available.

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