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CONVOY JW 63

Convoy JW 63 Cruising Order
Left Loch Ewe Dec. 30-1944, arrived Kola Inlet Jan. 8-1945 (38 ships)
See also Convoys HX 317, HX 318, HX 319, HX 323, HX 324, HX 325 and HX 326, as well as RA 64.

Br=British, Am=American, Norw-Norwegian

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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Philip F Thomas
(Am)
21
Francis C Harrington
(Am)
31
Silas Weir Mitchell
(Am)
41
Joshua W Alexander
(Am)
51
Alanson B Houghton
(Am)
61
Samaritan
(Br)
71
George H Pendleton
(Am)
81
John La Farge
(Am)
91
Charles M Schwab
(Am)
101
Warren Delano
(Am)
12
Henry Bacon
(Am)
22
Nacella
(Br)
32
Bernard N Baker
(Am)
42
Blue Ranger
(Br)
52
Empire Celia
(Br)
62
72
Lacklan
(Br)
82
J D Yeager
(Am)
92
Empire Archer
(Br)
102
Jose Marti
(Am)
13
Crosby S Noyes
(Am)
23
Norfjell
(Norw)
33
Horace Gray
(Am)
43 53 63 73 83
Thomas Scott
(Am)
93
British Promise
(Br)
103
John A Quitman
(Am)
14
Edmund Fanning
(Am)
24
Charles Scribner
(Am)
34
R Ney McNeely
(Am)
44 54 64 74 84
Idefjord
(Norw)
94
Paul H Harwood
(Am)
104
Henry Villard
(Am)
15
Henry Wyncoop
(Am)
25
Caesar Rodney
(Am)
35
Benjamin H Hill
(Am)
45 55 65 75 85
James Kerney
(Am)
95
John Ireland
(Am)
105
Lebaron Russel Briggs
(Am)
16 26 36 46 56 66 76 86 96 106
Adolph S Ochs *
(Am)


Commodore was in Samaritan, Vice Commodore in Empire Archer

RFA Blue Ranger and the British tanker Laurelwood were escort oilers (I don't see her among the ships in this convoy (error?).

* Adolph S Ochs returned to Loch Ewe, reason not given. She sailed in the next convoy, JW 64.

The convoy was not detected.

Escorts:
Dec. 30-Jan. 8: Destroyers Keppel, Walker and Westcott, sloops Cygnet, Lapwing, Lark and corvettes Allington Castle, Alnwick Castle and Bamborough Castle.
Jan. 1-1945: Cruiser Diadem and escort carrier Vindex (center columns), destroyers Myngs, Savage, Scourge, Serapis, Zambesi, Zebra and Canadian Algonquin and Sioux, and Norwegian Stord.

Arctic Convoys main page

To the next JW convoy in my list JW 64

Source for the information on this page: Convoys to Russia 1941-1945, Bob Ruegg/Arnold Hague, 1992.


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