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CONVOY HX 199

Convoy HX 199 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on July 19-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 30th (Arnold Hague gives 29 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, Du=Dutch, Fr=French, Norw=Norwegian, Am=American, Hon=Honduran, Pa=Panamanian.
MOWT=Ministry of War Transport.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Novelist
(Br)
21
Tucurinca
(Br)
31
Manchester Commerce
(Br)
41
Winnipeg II
(Fr / MOWT 1942)
51
Salacia
(Br)
61
Empire Bittern
(Br)
71
Delilian
(Br)
81
Moveria
(Br)
 91
Empire Ray *
(Br)
12
Ganymedes
(Du)
22
Sovac
(Br)
32
Taron
(Br)
42
Walter Jennings
(Am)
52
B. P. Newton
(Norw)
62
Vacuum
(Am)
72
Kilworth
(Am)
82
Trondheim
(Norw)
 92
Alcoa Voyager *
(Am)
13
Ocean Fame
(Br)
23
Lista
(Norw)
 33
El Aleto
(Br)		 43
Troubadour
(Norw)		 53
Stigstad
(Norw)		 63
Cefalu
(Hon)		 73
Stone Street *
(Pa)		 83
Orville Harden
(Pa)		 93
Scebeli
(Norw)
14
 24
Darien
(Pa)		 34
Idefjord
(Norw)		 44 54
John Marshall
(Am)		 64 74
North King
(Pa)		 84 94

Notes:
* Empire Ray is also listed in HX 197 (she could not have completed a voyage to the U.K. in both). Alcoa Voyager may have returned to port(?), because she's also listed in the next convoy, which left Halifax on July 27. Stone Street may have had some sort of problems causing her to have to return to port(?) - she's listed as joining up with Convoy HX 202 off St. John's (or this port may have been her destination when she sailed in HX 199?). HX 202 left Halifax on Aug. 9.

The ships went out in the following order:
The first to leave at 13:24 was El Aleto, followed at 14:05 by Salacia (Commodore Vessel), then with a few minutes between each ship, Moveria, Manchester Commerce ("B" flag=explosives), Delilian, Empire Bittern (5 masts), Winnipeg II (4 masts), Stigstad (K on stack), Ocean Fame (torpedo nets and 4 frames at mainmast base), Scebeli, Taron, Novelist (Catapult freighter, very high stack), John Marshall (6 invasion barges on deck), Empire Ray (Catapult freighter, V6924 on Hurricane), Kilworth (KOVJ), Trondheim, Lista, Troubadour, Ganymedes, Alcoa Voyager, Walter Jennings, Sovac, Stone Street, Vacuum (KUTS), Idefjord, Darien (HPBD), Orville Harden, B. P. Newton, Tucurinca, Cefalu (passenger vessel, HRBF, 5221 -1930 - Standard Nav. Corp. Ceiba), and about an hour later the last to go out at 16:44 was North King (passenger vessel, KFEW, 5064 - 1903 - Pacific American Fisheries Inc., Bellingham).

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