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CONVOY SC 61
Departed Sydney, C.B. on Dec. 21-1941 and arrived Liverpool on Jan 7-1942.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 16 ships in this convoy.
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Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. See also Convoy ON 35, and other ON convoys from the same time period.
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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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Ampetco
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Belgian
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Tanker B
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London (Shellhaven)
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From SC 60
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Roumanie
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"
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general
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London
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From SC 60
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Parklaan
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Dutch
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wheat
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Hull
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From SC 60
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New Westminster City
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British
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general
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Hull
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From SC 60
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Winsum
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Dutch
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sugar
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Greenock
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–
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Empire Franklin
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British
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wheat
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Mersey
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Llanberis
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"
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iron ore
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Middlesbrough
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From SC 60
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Morska Wola
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Polish
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general ev.
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Manchester
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From SC 60
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Framlington Court
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British
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steel - general
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London
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From SC 60
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Charlton Hall
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"
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sugar - scrap
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Dundee
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–
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Thalatta
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Norwegian
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sugar - copper
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Clyde
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From SC 60
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"
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grain
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Ipswich
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From SC 60
Listed in SC 62 |
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Bruse Jarl
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"
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flour
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London
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From SC 60
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British
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general
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Liverpool
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From SC 60
Listed in SC 62 |
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"
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general
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Glasgow
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From SC 60
Listed in SC 62 |
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Bur
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Swedish
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none given
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Manchester
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–
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Greek
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grain
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Hull
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From SC 60
To SC 62 - returned |
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American
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general
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Archangel
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Empire Lotus
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British
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sugar
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Mersey
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–
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Panamanian
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general
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Reykjavik
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Listed in SC 62
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Dutch
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steel - general
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Avonmouth
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Listed in SC 62
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British
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grain - general
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Avonmouth
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Listed in SC 62
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Belgian
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sulphur
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Garston
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Danish / MOWT 1940
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lumber
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London
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To SC 62 - did not sail
Listed in SC 63 |
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Peterston
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British
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general
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Holyhead / Manchester
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–
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Rudby
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"
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general
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London
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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 62
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Yugoslavian
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general
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Liverpool
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Listed in SC 62
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British
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manganese ore
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Middlesbrough
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Listed in SC 62
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Norwegian
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Adm. tanker B
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Clyde
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Swedish
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general
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Hull
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To SC 62 - did not sail
To SC 63 - returned |
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British
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grain
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Hull
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Listed in SC 62
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"
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grain
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Liverpool
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From HX 165
Listed in SC 62 |
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Norwegian
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Adm. tanker B
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Clyde
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From HX 165
Listed in HX 168 |
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"
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general - lumber
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Iceland
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Listed in SC 62
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British
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general
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Cardiff
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From SC 59
Listed in SC 62 |
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Leikanger
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Norwegian
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general
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Cardiff
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–
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| Additionally, according to A. Hague, the British Empire Foam, which had initially been in Convoy HX 166, became a straggler from that convoy and later joined SC 61. | ||||
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Notes: To the next SC convoy in my list SC 62 |
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