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CONVOY SC 22
Departed Halifax on Febr. 8-1941 and arrived Liverpool on the 28th.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 32 ships in this convoy.
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Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. Further details have been added with the help of: Sailing date is given as Febr. 11-1941 in this Advance Sailing Telegram.
Some of these ships are said to have come from Convoy HX 106 and HX 107, but they are not marked, so I don't know which ones they are. MOWT = Ministry of War Transport |
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Ship
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Nationality
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Cargo
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Destination
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Remarks
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Grado
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Norwegian
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pit props
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Hull
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–
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"
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grain
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Belfast d. g. / Swansea
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Fido
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"
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lumber
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Preston
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From SC 21
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Borgfred
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"
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paper pulp
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Gravesend
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Nesttun
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"
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lumber
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Wisbech
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–
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Kervégan
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French / MOWT 1940
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dry pulp
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Methil d. g. / London
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From SC 21
Foundered - See Notes |
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Orminster
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British
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phosphates
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Avonmouth
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From SC 21
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Mexico
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Norwegian
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Tanker B
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London
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"
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lumber
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Milford Haven / Plymouth
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From SC 21
Listed in SC 24 |
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Rena
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"
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steel - scrap iron
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Newport
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From HX 104
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"
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pit props
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Hull
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To SC 23 - returned
Listed in SC 27 |
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Gloxinia
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British
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Tanker B
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Bowling
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From SC 21
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Hilversum
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Dutch
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sulphates
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Glasgow
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From SC 21
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British
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steel
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Swansea
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Listed in SC 23
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Maycrest
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"
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pig iron - trucks
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Middlesbrough
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–
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Pencarrow
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"
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grain
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London
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From SC 21
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Flaminian
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"
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general
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Newport
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Essex Lance
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"
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grain - flour
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London
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–
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Rotula
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Dutch
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Tanker W
(aviation fuel) |
Swansea
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Sunk - See Notes
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Trompenberg
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"
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phosphates
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Belfast
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–
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Empire Mouflon
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British
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steel
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Ardrossan
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–
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Granfoss
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Norwegian
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chemical pulp
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Methil d. g. / Ridham Dock
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From SC 21
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Dutch
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steel - lumber
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Belfast
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Listed in SC 23
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Randa
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Danish / Can. Gov. 6-1940
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general
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Preston
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–
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Pennington Court
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British
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grain
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London
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–
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Sheaf Mount
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"
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pig iron
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Leith
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From SC 21
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Michalis
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Greek
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grain
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Avonmouth
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–
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British
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grain
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London
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Listed in SC 23
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Greek
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scrap iron
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Belfast d. g. / Manchester
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Facto
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Norwegian
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lumber
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London
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–
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Grodno
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British
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sugar - general
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London
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–
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Palestinian
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steel - pulp
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Methl d. g. / London
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See also SC 29
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Linge
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Dutch
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phosphates
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Milford Haven / Plymouth
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–
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Baron Kinnaird
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British
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phosphates
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Billingham
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–
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Norwegian
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bauxite
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Larne
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Listed in SC 23
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Stargard
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"
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pit props
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W. Hartlepool
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–
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Errington Court
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British
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grain
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Hull
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–
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"
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Tanker B
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Clyde
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Listed in SC 23
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"
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steel - trucks
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Clyde f. o.
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Listed in SC 23
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"
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grain
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London
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Listed in SC 23
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"
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grain
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Hull
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To SC 23 - returned
Listed in SC 26 |
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"
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steel
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Belfast d. g. / Newport
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Listed in SC 23
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Wellington Court
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"
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steel
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Hull
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Evviva
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Norwegian
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pit props
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Immingham
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From SC 20
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Rozenburg
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Dutch
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wood pulp
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Methil d. g. / Grimsby
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From SC 20
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Western Maid
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American / MOWT 1941
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scrap
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Swansea
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Renamed Empire Cormorant 1941
From HX 108 (or HX 106?) |
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Narocz
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Polish
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newsprint
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Glasgow
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From SC 20
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Rotterdam
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Dutch
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Tanker W
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Bowling / Ardrossan
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From SC 21
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| Additionally, the Norwegian Bernhard is said to have been scheduled for this convoy, but is not mentioned in the Advance Sailing Telegram - See Bernhard | ||||
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Notes: Kervégan, on a voyage from St. John's (Jan. 17-1941) for London via Halifax, foundered on Febr. 9-1941. Reported in distress in 43 40N 61 33W on that date, wreckage and bales of wood pulp washed up at Nova Scotia - there were no survivors. Rotula, on a voyage from Curacao for Swansea with a cargo of 10 699 tons of aviation fuel, was bombed by German aircraft on March 1-1941, with the loss of 16 men, 32 survived. The wreck was sunk by a British trawler. To the next SC convoy in my list SC 23 |
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