Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper, England (his source: Public Records Office, Kew).
Station numbers and sequence of departure were received from Ted Agar - His source: Halifax diary.

Stations are pendants flown on departure Halifax, and may have changed as the voyage progressed.

Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined returned to port.

MOWT = Ministry of War Transport

Also, according to Arnold Hague, the Norwegian Bralanta, which had started out in Convoy HX 181, became a straggler from that convoy and joined up with Convoy SC 75 on March 26 - see Bralanta.

Ted's diary also lists the British Northern Ranger (station 14), and the Canadian Sarnolite (24), Royalite (34), Imperoyal (44), and Talaralite (64) as going out with this convoy. They are not mentioned in the Advance Sailing Telegram. See * in Notes below.

2 ships were given the pendant number 81; the British Empire Porpoise and the Panamanian Standard.

The ships left Halifax in the following order:
The first to go out at 11:12 was the British Dorelian, followed at 11:20 by Empire Porpoise, and with a few minutes between each vessel, Empire Planet, Ingerfire, Gitano, San Felix, Standard, Atheltemplar, Panos, Caduceus, Arthur W. Sewall, Christian Holm, Maritima, Fagersten, City of Joliet, West Gotomsha, Berkel, Disa, Rathlin, Ingman, Mount Mycale, Laguna (listed as Seguna in Ted's diary), Lido, Talaralite, Imperoyal, Royalite, Bjørkhaug, Sarnolite, Emmy, Henrik Ibsen (LCNY), Northern Ranger, Christine Marie (did not sail with convoy) and Zeus. The last ship to go out at 14:26 was the Yugoslavian Nikolina Matkovic (YTTE).

* Sarnolite, Royalite and Northern Ranger are also mentioned among the ships that went out with Convoy SC 71, and the 2 Canadian ships can also be found in Convoy SC 73. It's possible they were en route to other ports, or went out for other reasons(?). Sarnolite shows up again in Convoy SC 79, which left Halifax on Apr. 11, and Talaralite is mentioned in SC 72 on Febr. 28. Again, note that these ships are not included in the Advance Sailing Telegrams for these convoys.

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