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CONVOY HX 197

Convoy HX 197 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on July 6-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 17th (Arnold Hague gives 24 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, Fr=French, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Sw=Swedish, Am=American, Gr=Greek.
MOWT=Ministry of War Transport.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Empire Ray *
(Br)
21
Ville de Tamatave
(Fr / MOWT 1941)
31
Manchester Citizen
(Br)
41
Cairnesk
(Br)
51
Corrales
(Br)
61
Beaverhill
(Br)
71
Lancastrian Prince
(Br)
81
John A. Brown
(Br)
 91
Pacific Enterprise
(Br)
12
Gerassimos Vergottis *
(Gr)
22
Myrmidon
(Br)
32
Dorcasia
(Br)
42
San Ambrosio
(Br)
52
Ocean Volunteer
(Br)
62
Gdynia
(Sw)
72
Pan Georgia
(Am)
82
Belinda *
(Norw)
 92
Ulysses
(Du)
13
Bretwalda
(Br)
23
Settler
(Br)
 33
Ocean Courage
(Br)		 43
Anniston City?
(Am)

Diloma?
(Br)

 53
Waterland *
(Du)		 63
Empire Dickens
(Br)		 73 83 93
Empire Plover
(Br)
14 24 34 44 54 64
Ocean Veteran
(Br)		 74 84 94
A note in connection with the slow Convoy SC 91 states that Thomas Ruffin, sailing in that convoy, originally came from HX 197.


Notes:
Anniston City and Diloma have both been given station 43 - hence my question marks.

* Belinda may have returned to port(?) - she's also listed in the next convoy, as are Gerassimos Vergottis and Waterland. Similarly, Empire Ray shows up again in HX 199, which left Halifax on July 19.

The ships went out in the following order:
The first to leave at 13:14 was Beaverhill, followed at 13:20 by Corrales, then with a few minutes between each ship Empire Ray (Catapult freighter), Lancastrian Prince, Ville de Tamatave, Empire Plover, Manchester Citizen, Bretwalda, Gerassimos Vergottis, Gdynia, Empire Dickens, Ocean Volunteer, Anniston City, Waterland, Ocean Veteran, Pan Georgia, Pacific Enterprise, Belinda, John A. Brown, Myrmidon, San Ambrosio, Cairnesk, Dorcasia, Settler, Ulysses, Diloma, and the last to leave at 14:55 was Ocean Courage.

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