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CONVOY SC 129

Convoy SC 129 Cruising Order
departed Halifax on May 2-1943 and arrived Liverpool on the 21st (Arnold Hague gives 24 ships)
Form received from Ted Agar.

(Advance Sailing Telegram is not available, so this info may be incomplete).

For info, some of the ships in this convoy are listed in the westbound Convoy ONS 11 in June-1943.

Further details have been added with the help of:
"The Allied Convoy System", Arnold Hague.
"Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague
"Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer
"The World's Merchant Fleets", R. W. Jordan

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Da=Danish, Sw=Swedish, Ice=Icelandic, Am=American, Gr=Greek, Fr=French, Pan=Panamanian.
Crossed out ships were cancelled.

MOWT=Ministry of War Transport, RV=Rescue Vessel, s=sunk, †=dead.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Empire Boswell
(Br)
21
Umberleigh
(Br)
31
Masunda
(Br)
41
Blairesk
(Br)
51
Baltrover
(Br)
61
Ocean Viking
(Br)
71
Olivebank *
(Br)
81
New York City
(Br)
91
Westmoor
(Br)
12
Norfolk*
(Am)
22
Antigone
s - 3†
(Br)
32
Selfoss
(Ice)
42
Larranga
(Am)
52
Orville Harden
(Pa)
62
Vanja
(Norw)
72
Kolsnaren
(Sw)
82
Grey County
(Norw)
92
Kyklades
(Gr?)
13
23
Grado
s - 0†
Norw)
 33
Stanford
(Br)		 43
Felix Taussig
(Am)		 53 63
James Hawson
(Norw)		 73
Tombouctou
(Fr / MOWT 1940)		 83
Oakworth
(Br)		 93
14 24 34
Empire Melody
(Br)		 44
Taxiarchis
(Gr)		 54 64
Melrose Abbey
(Br)
RV		 74
Nordlys
(Da / MOWT 1940)		 84
Cetus
(Norw)		 94
* I believe this should be the Norwegian Norfalk.


Notes:
The Commodore was in Baltrover.

The 2 cancelled ships sailed in the next convoy, SC 130.

* Olivebank may have returned to port(?) - she's also listed in the next convoy.

Antigone, cargo of 7800 tons grain, general and MT, was sunk by U-402 on May 11-1943, 3 died, 43 survived. Melrose Abbey rescued 4 survivors from the water, 2 from a raft and 37 from a lifeboat.
Grado, 1000 tons steel and 3000 tons lumber, was also sunk by U-402 that day. 16 men were picked up from a lifeboat by Melrose Abbey, while escorts rescued the remaining 20. There were no casualties - see my page about Grado.

Melrose Abbey (requisitioned in Febr.-1941) was on her 7th voyage as rescue vessel, having started out at Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 176 on Apr. 1 (to Halifax Apr. 17), and returning from Halifax with SC 129 to Clyde, May 2–May 20-1943. Currie Line Ltd. also had a ship by this name.

Related External links:
Sinking of Antigone - Part of Uboat.net.com, which also has some details on the sinking of Grado.

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