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CONVOY ON 125

Convoy ON 125 Cruising Order
Departed Liverpool on Aug. 28-1942 and arrived New York City on Sept. 12 (Arnold Hague says 28 ships).
Transcribed from several documents received from Roger Griffiths (his source: Public Records Office, Kew).

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Du=Dutch, Gr=Greek, Pa=Panamanian, Am=American, Bel=Belgian
Pass.=passengers

Ships sailing from:
L=Liverpool, M=Milford, G=Clyde, A=Aultbea, Bel=Belfast, Lon=Londonderry.

For info, some of the ships in this convoy had previously arrived England with Convoy HX 200, others had arrived with HX 201 or HX 202 (see also HX 199)
A couple of them subsequently returned to England with Convoy HX 208 (others are listed in HX 209 or HX 210).
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11 (M)
Rio Novo
(Norw)
21 (L)
Gulf Hawk
(Am)
31 (L)
Pandorian
(Br)
41 (M)
Arabian Prince
(Br)
51 (L)
Samuel Bakke
(Norw)
61 (L)
Prins Willem III
6 Pass.
(Du)
 71 (L)
Skiensfjord
(Norw)		 81 (M)
Tucurinca
7 Pass.
(Br)		 91 (L)
Ville d'Anvers
(Bel)
12 (M)
Tawali
(Du)
22 (M)
Charles F. Meyer
(Br)
32 (M)
Atlantic Sun
(Am)
42 (M)
Jamaica Producer
45 Pass.
(Br)
52 (L)
Belgian Gulf
(Pa)
62 (G)
F. J. Wolfe
(Br)
 72 (L)
Skaraas
(Norw)		 82 (G)
Fjordaas
(Norw)		 92 (M)
Mount Kyllene
(Gr)
13 (Bel)
Hellenic Trader
(Pa)
23 (M)
Tibia
(Du)
 33 (G)
British Tenacity
(Br)		 43 (M)
Empire Dickens
(Br)		 53 (G)
C. J. Barkdull
(Pa)		 63 (G)
Clavella
(Du)		 73 (L)
Ensis
(Br)		 83 (L)
British Vigilance
(Br)		 93 (G)
Kaipara
(Br)
14 24 (M)
Tivives
(Am)		 34 (M)
Empire Bronze
(Br)		 44 (Lon)
Trojan Star
19 Pass.
(Br)		 54 (L)
British Tradition
(Br)		 64 (M)
Carrillo
(Am)		 74 (M)
Expositor
(Am)		 84 94


Notes:
Commodore Vice Admiral L. E. Crabbe was in Samuel Bakke,
The A 1 form gives the Vice Commodore vessel as Pandorian, while the Commodore's notes say that Commodore Forsyth was in Skiensfjord.
Rear Commodore was in Tucurinca.

Note that some of the ships in this convoy are also mentioned in ON 127 - they could not have completed a voyage to the U.S. in both. (Perhaps they were only bound for Iceland when in ON 125?)

Ensis returned to Liverpool on orders of C.-in-C. W.A. on completion of smoke trial at 00:30 Aug. 30 in 55 42N 09 05W.

Tucurinca and Mount Kyllene parted company for Halifax under escort in 43 18N 60 35W at 23:30 Sept. 9.

Rio Novo had a man overboard at 19:00 on Sept. 11. He was picked up but subsequently died.

Daily positions of convoy at 08:00 BST are available on request via the contact address provided at the bottom of this page. Or, go to this page on Mike Holdoway's website (external link) - I sent him the coordinates, and he made a chart of the voyage (click on "Charted convoy routes").

Escorts:
USS Spenser, Babbitt, HMCS Bittersweet, Collingwood, Trillium, Mayflower and HMS Nasturtium joined at 13:30 Aug. 29 in 55 30N 06 22W - departed at 19:00 Sept. 7 in 44 22N 49 29W at which time the following joined:
HMS Walker, HMCS Columbia, Calgary, Kamsack and Chicoutimi - parted company at 23:30 Sept. 9 in 43 18N 60 35W.
HMCS Lincoln, Nanaimo, Algoma and Kitchener joined at 22:00 Sept. 9 in 43 20N 60 30W.

The A 1 form also mentions HMS Campbell.

Air Escort:
Provided Sept. 7, 9, and 10.

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