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CONVOY HX 195

Convoy HX 195 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on June 21-1942 and arrived Liverpool on July 2 (Arnold Hague gives 30 ships).
List received from Ted Agar. (The stations given below are at time of departure, and may have changed as the voyage progressed).

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Eg=Egyptian, Am=American, Pol=Polish, Da=Danish, Ca=Canadian, Pa=Panamanian.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Empire Faith
(Br)
21
Empire Foam
(Br)
31
Empire Tarpon
(Br)
41
Abraham Lincoln
(Norw)
51
Pacific Pioneer
(Br)
61
Pandorian
(Br)
71
Manchester Trader
(Br)
81
Empire Ocean
(Br)
 91
Empire Rainbow
(Br)
12
22
Nueva Granada
(Norw)
32
Kosmos II
(Norw)
42
British Power *
(Br)
52
El Nil *
(Eg)
62
Inverilen
(Br)
72
San Ernesto
(Br)
82
Pan Aruba
(Norw)
 92
Artigas
(Pa)
13
Empire Heywood
(Br)
23
Tungsha
(Norw)
 33
British Tenacity
(Br)		 43 53
Antilochus
(Br)		 63
Seatrain Texas
(Am)		 73
Asbjørn
(Da / Ca Gov. 1940)		 83
Lechistan
(Pol)		 93
Explorer
(Br)
14 24 34 44
Lutz
(Norw)		 54
Pan Royal
(Am)		 64
 74
J. L. M. Curry
(Am)		 84 94
In addition to the above, Ocean Pride also went out with this convoy, but no pendant number is given.

According to a note in connection with the slow Convoy SC 89, Empire Rhodes, sailing in that convoy, originally came from HX 195.


Notes:
* British Power may not have sailed, or may have returned to port(?); she shows up again in the next convoy.

* The Egyptian El Nil was taken over by The Ministry of War Transport in June-1942, in use as diplomatic mission ship till 1943, then hospital ship from June-1943, later as troopship. ("The World's Merchant Fleets", R. W. Jordan).

The ships went out in the following order:
Ocean Pride is said to have gone out to join the convoy at sea - no time is given. At 10:45 Manchster Trader went out, followed at 10:50 by Empire Tarpon, then with a few minutes between each ship Pacific Pioneer (Commodre vessel), Empire Foam (Catapult freighter, NJE on Hurricane), Empire Heywood, Empire Rainbow (Catapult freighter, LUM on hurrican), San Ernesto, Asbjørn, Nueva Granada, Empire Ocean (Catapult freighter, XSL on hurricane), Inverilen, Lechistan, British Tenacity, Abraham Lincoln, British Power, Pan Royal, Lutz, Pandorian, Seatrain Texas, Tungsha, Empire Faith (Catapult fr.), Kosmos II, Artigas, El Nil, Explorer, Antilochus, Pan Aruba, then the last ship to go at 13:25 was J. L. M. Curry with 4 invasion barges on deck.

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