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CONVOY MKF 18
Left Malta on July 11-1943, arrived Clyde on July 23.
(Arnold Hague gives departure Sicily July 10 - 13 ships)

Transcribed from a document received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.

All these ships were over 10 000 gt, some over 20 000 (carrying troops/personnel).
A slower convoy, MKS 18, sailed from Gibraltar later that month (joined up with Convoy SL 133 from Freetown).
Ship
Nationality
Destination
Durban Castle
British
Clyde
Dutchess of Bedford
"
Liverpool
Llangibby Castle
"
Liverpool
Marnix van St. Aldegonde
Dutch
Clyde
Monarch of Bermuda
British
Liverpool
Orontes
"
Clyde
Otranto
"
Clyde
Reina del Pacifico
"
Clyde
Ruys
Dutch
Clyde
Strathnaver
British
Liverpool
Tegelberg
Dutch
Clyde
Samaria
British
Liverpool
Fort Lee
–
Avonmouth


Notes:
Commodore was in Durban Castle.

No further details are available on this convoy.

Related external links:
SL, HG and MKS and MKF convoys - In Chronological order. The MKS and MKF convoys start on this page for 1942, while the 1943 convoys are listed on this page.

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