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CONVOY SC 33
Departed Sydney, C.B. on June 1-1941 and arrived Liverpool on the 21st.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 43 ships in this convoy.

Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. Further details have been added with the help of: "Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague "Lloyd's War Losses", Vol. I. Sailing date in this Advance Sailing Telegram is given as May 30-1941. ~~Crossed out~~ ships did not sail, underlined returned to port. MOWT = Ministry of War Transport
Ship	Nationality	Cargo	Destination	Remarks
Vulcanus	Dutch	phosphate	Ipswich	–
Fintra	British	lumber	London	–
Zurichmoor	"	wheat - trucks	Barry Dock	–
Lily	Greek	wheat	Avonmouth	–
Groenlo	Dutch	lumber	Barry Dock	From SC 29
Roxby	British	wheat	Avonmouth	From SC 32
Polyktor	Greek	grain	Sharpness	From SC 32
Astra	Norwegian	lumber	Grimsby	From SC 32
Empire Lynx	British	scrap metal	Grangemouth	From SC 32
Marga	Norwegian	asphalte - bauxite	London	–
Amstel	Dutch	phosphates	Garston	–
Trompenberg	"	phosphates	Avonmouth	–
Winterswijk	"	wheat	Swansea	–
~~Einvik~~	Norwegian	lumber - pit props	Cardiff	To SC 34 - returned To SC 36 (not available)
Flensburg	Dutch	steel - scrap	Swansea	From SC 32
Nordlys	Danish / MOWT 1940	wheat	Portishead	From SC 32
Empire Cormorant	British	steel - scrap	Middlesbrough	From SC 32
Belnor	Norwegian	nitrate	Clyde	From SC 31
Haifa Trader	Palestinian	wood pulp - steel	Methil / London	Returned to port (Sydney, C.B.) See also SC 29
Antlanticos	Greek	wheat	London	–
Nicolaos Piangos	"	grain - trucks	Manchester	Returned to port (Sydney, C.B.) Listed in SC 34
Brisk	Norwegian	bauxite	Burntisland	–
Fanø	Danish / MOWT 1940	timber	Cardiff	–
Zeus	Greek	wheat	Hull	–
Ruth I	Norwegian	steel - lumber	Portishead	From SC 32
Flowergate	British	wheat	Immingham	–
Bestum	Norwegian	lumber	London	–
Empire Fusilier	British	phosphates	Tees	From SC 32
Thistleglen	"	planes - tractors - flour	Hull	–
Framlington Court	"	wheat - oatmeal	Glasgow	–
Empire Springbuck	"	iron - steel - explosives	Clyde	–
Maritima	"	grain - flour	Glasgow	Returned to port (St. John's)
Dayrose	"	flour - trucks	Manchester	–
Trongate	"	grain	Glasgow	–
Margit	Danish / MOWT 1940	bauxite	Ellesmere	Returned to Halifax (boiler trouble) Listed in SC 34
Barrhill	British	grain	London	Sunk - See Notes
Grado	Norwegian	phosphates	Aberdeen	From HX 129
Siremalm	"	steel - lumber	London	–
Culebra	British	sugar	London	–
Parklaan	Dutch	grain	Avonmouth	–
Gypsum Queen	British	sulphur	Garston	From SC 31
~~Reedpool~~	"	grain	Liverpool	Listed in SC 34
~~Radchurch~~	Yug. Vid / MOWT 1941 (renamed)	lumber	Milford Haven f. o.	–
Parkhaven	Dutch	wheat	London	From HX 129
Stonepool	British	grain	Avonmouth	From SC 32
Innerton	"	grain - trucks	London	From HX 129
Calobre	Panamanian	general - special	Liverpool	From SC 31
Nailsea Moor	British	flour - trucks	Avonmouth	–
Suderholm	Norwegian	Tanker B	Manchester	See also HX 125
Grodno	British	bauxite - pitch	Manchester	–
Norbryn	Norwegian	nitrates	Newport	Transferred at sea from HX 130 See Notes on this page

Notes:
Commodore was in Framlington Court.

The Rescue Vessel Copeland was also with this convoy for a while. She was on her 7th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde with Convoy OB 331 on June 8-1941 until detached on the 12th, then joined SC 33 on June 15 to return to Clyde, June 21.

Barrhill, on a voyage from New York for London with 7000 tons of grain, did not make it to her destination. She was bombed and sunk by German aircraft on June 27/28 (midnight) - She had a crew of 38 and 2 gunners, 5 crew died.

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