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CONVOY SC 64
Departed Sydney, C.B. on Jan. 9-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 23rd.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 29 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:
"Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer
"Lloyd's War Losses", Vol. I.

Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined returned.

Ship
Nationality
Cargo
Destination
Remarks
Empire Unity
British
Tanker B
London
From SC 63
To SC 65 - did not sail
To SC 66 - did not sail
To SC 68 - did not sail
Listed in SC 69
Brand
Norwegian
sugar
Clyde
From SC 63
Leighton
British
general - timber - 6 passengers
Manchester
Hainaut
Belgian
sulphur
Garston
From SC 63
Namarib
American
general - special
Loch Ewe f. o.
From SC 62
Parthenon
Greek
flour
London
Fairwater
British
general
Hull
Aircrest
"
iron ore
Glasgow
Empire Antelope
"
general
Londonderry
From SC 63
Calobre
Panamanian
general
Liverpool
Amakura
British
rum - sugar - mail 50
Liverpool
Empire Kingsley
"
wheat
Avonmouth
From SC 63
Ashbury
"
general
Avonmouth
From SC 63
Elisabeth van Belgie
Belgian
general
Glasgow
From SC 62
Empire Lynx
British
steel
Ellesmere Port
Friar Rock
Panamanian
general
Clyde f. o. (Archangel)
From SC 63
Sunk - See Notes
Scottish Heather
British
Adm. tanker B
Loch Ewe f. o.
From SC 63
(See also SC 75)
Souliotis
Greek
iron ore
Middlesbrough
Listed in SC 65
Aun
Norwegian
timber
London
Listed in SC 65
Nemanja
Yugoslavian
general
Manchester
Picotee
British
general - steel
Cardiff
Anglo African
"
wheat
Manchester
Frontenac
Norwegian
Tanker B
Clyde
Listed in SC 65
Silverelm
British
general - special
Holyhead / Manchester
Anna
Greek
grain
Leith
From SC 62
Listed in SC 66
Milos
Swedish
phosphates
Hull
British Honour
British
Adm. tanker B
Loch Ewe
Euthalia
Greek
grain
Tyne
Listed in SC 65
Nandi
Norwegian
pulp wood
Grimsby
Listed in SC 65
Pilar de Larrinaga
British
general - special
Holyhead . Manchester
Tovelil
Danish / MOWT 1940
flour
Hull
To SC 65 - did not sail
Listed in SC 66
Empire Dunlin
British
general
London
Evanger
Norwegian
general
Liverpool
Listed in SC 65
Exterminator
Panamanian
general
Archangel
To SC 65 - returned
To SC 68 - did not sail
Shows up again in SC 72 - returned
Sailed in WSC 73 from N.F., March 10
(Later joined PQ 14)
Johilla
British
general - steel - lumber - special
Liverpool
Ashworth
"
wheat
Hull
Norlago
American
general
Loch Ewe f. o.
Arthur W. Sewall
Norwegian
Tanker B
Manchester
Gloucester City
British
steel - cotton - general
Avonmouth
From HX 169
From Wabana
Empire Cabot
British
phosphates - special
Hull
From SC 63
To SC 65 - returned
To SC 66 - returned
Sailed in SC 68
Modlin
Polish
pulp wood
Rochester
From SC 63

Notes:
Commodore was in Amakura.

Friar Rock, on a voyage from New York for Loch Ewe with general cargo, was torpedoed and sunk on Jan. 13-1942 by U 130. 31 died, 6 survived.

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