This form shows Halifax ships only - some more ships are named in the notes below.

Advance Sailing Telegram is not available, so this info is incomplete.

The stations given are the initial convoy stations on departure Halifax; these may have changed as the voyage progressed.

Further details have been added with the help of:
"The Allied Convoy System" Arnold Hague
"Axis Submarine Successes of WW II", Jürgen Rohwer
"The World's Merchant Fleets", R. W. Jordan.

Br=British, Am=American, Du=Dutch, Bel=Belgian, Norw=Norwegian, Da=Danish.
s=sunk, coll.=collided, † = dead

* Spurt may have returned to port - she's also listed in the next convoy, SC 101.

** I believe this was the Norwegian Norhauk

* This should probably be Stad Maassluis, which sailed int he next convoy.

Empire Hartebeeste, 7000 tons steel, food & MT, was sunk by U-596 on Sept. 20-1942 (R. W. Jordan says there were no casualties, while Arnold Hague says 5 died) - 46 survived, some of whom were picked up by the Norwegian Rio Verde, others by the Norwegian Norhauk (ex Empire Beaver).

The British Tennessee (Danish till taken over by MOWT in 1940) was also in this convoy, not included in the table above. Became a straggler and was sunk by U-617 on Sept. 23-1942, 15 died, 20 survived. She had a cargo of 3438 tons of wheat.

Athelsultan, 13 000 tons molasses, was also sunk by U-617 on Sept. 23 with the loss of 51 (50?) men, while 10 survived.

*** Pennmar had started out in Convoy HX 206 on Sept. 6 - but was unable to maintain convoy speed and returned to Halifax the next day (it looks like Mount Evans and Esturia had also started out in that convoy). Pennmar became a straggler from Convoy SC 100 and was sunk by U-432 on Sept. 24-1942, with the loss of 2 men, 60 survived ("The World's Merchant Fleets" gives 3 casualties, 61 survivors - but 1 had died in an accident previously).

Roumanie also became a straggler and was sunk by U-617 on Sept. 24, 42 died while only 1 survived.

The ships left Halifax in the following order:
The first to leave at 14:39 was the Commodore Vessel Athelsultan, followed at 14:43 by Esturia, then with a few minutes between each ship, Mount Evans, Pennmar, Empire Hartebeeste, Norhawk, Empire Razorbill, Greylock, Polarland, Ary Lensen, Empire Soldier, Dux, Empire Stour, Empire Opal, Innesmoor, Rio Verde, Panama, Roumanie, Spurt, Atlantic, Nancy Moran, Security, and the last to leave at 17:35 was Belgian Fisherman.

More details on the Norwegian ships in this convoy can be found with the help of the index below.

Related external links
Battle for Convoy SC 100

The history of USS Campbell - Includes quite a bit of details on events in Convoy SC 100.

Empire Ships

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