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CONVOY HX 179

Convoy HX 179 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on March 9-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 22nd (Arnold Hague gives 21 ships).
This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations.
List received from Ted Agar. (The stations given below are at time of departure, and may have changed as the voyage progressed).

Br=British, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Ice=Icelandic.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
11
Empire Rainbow
(Br)
21
Novelist
(Br)
31
Empire
Swan
(Br)
41
Cymbula
(Du)
51
Empire Confidence
(Br)
61
Beaverhill
(Br)
71
Regent Lion
(Br)
81
Ardenvohr
(Br)
12
Observer
(Br)
22
*El Aleto
(Br)
32
42
Thorshøvdi
(Norw)
52
Woensdrecht
(Du)
62
San Cipriano
(Br)
72
Troubadour
(Norw)
82
Marie Bakke
(Norw)
13
**Viking Star
(Br)
23
Empire Chivalry
(Br)
 33
Hercules
(Du)		 43
Tuscan Star
(Br)		 53
*Audacious
(Pa)		 63
Delilian
(Br)		 73 83
14 24 34
Fort Amherst
(Br)		 44 54
Myrmidon
(Br)		 64 74 84
According to a note for Convoy SC 74, Empire Moon, sailing in that convoy, came from HX 179.


Notes:
* El Aleto is also listed for the next convoy out, Convoy HX 180 which departed Halifax on March 15, which could mean she did not actually sail to England in HX 179. Audacious is also listed for both convoys.

** There's a notation for Viking Star as she goes out at 12:10 saying "Drops out of Convoy and anchors off Tower", then later, after the last ship has gone out, "Viking Star has taken her signal letters down" - Note that she's listed in the slow Convoy SC 74 instead.

In the convoy was also the British freighter Alan-A-Dale, as the last ship to leave at 14:14 - no station given.

The vessels departed in the following sequence:
The first ship to leave at 11:10 was Empire Confidence (Flagship), then with a few minutes between each ship the Catapult freighter Novelist, followed by Empire Swan ("B" flag), Beaverhill (2 open decks), then Audacious, Empire Rainbow, Cymbula, Ardenvohr, Tuscan Star (2 open decks, men and women passengers), Marie Bakke (2 red bands on stack), Viking Star (drops out off Tower), Woensdrecht, Empire Chivalry, Delilian (crated planes), San Cipriano, Observer, Hercules, Fort Amherst, Myrmidon, Troubadour (crated planes), El Aleto, Thorshøvdi, Regent Lion, and at 14:15 Alan-A-Dale went out.

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