Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper, England (his source: Public Records Office, Kew).
Station numbers were provided by Ted Agar, England (his source: Halifax diary).

The stations given are the intitial convoy stations on departure; these may have changed as the voyage progressed.

Additional details have been added with the help of:
"Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer
"Lloyd's War Losses", Vol I.
"The World's Merchant Fleets", R. W. Jordan
"Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague.

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

MOWT = Ministry of War Transport

Also in this convoy for a while, sailing in station 43, was the Rescue Vessel Stockport (requisitioned on July 8-1941, entered service in Dec. following conversion). She was on her 4th voyage as such, having started this voyage with the westbound Convoy ON 76 from Clyde to Halifax March 16-March 31, joining SC 78 at Halifax Apr. 5, remaining as far as St. John's Apr. 13, then left that day to join Convoy SC 79 Apr. 15.

San Gerardo, on a voyage from Curacao for Clyde via Halifax with 17 000 tons of fuel oil, had been torpedoed and sunk on March 31 by U-71, 700 miles from Cape Hatteras. She had a crew of 52 and 5 gunners - 49 crew and 2 gunners perished.

Eastmoor, on a voyage from Savannah for Liverpool via Halifax with 7500 tons of general cargo, had been torpedoed and sunk on Apr. 1 (German time) by U-71. She had a crew of 42 and 10 gunners, 13 crew and 3 gunners were lost.

The ships left port in the following order (from Halifax diary - received from Ted Agar):
The first ship to leave at 10:50 was Manchester Spinner, followed at 11:13 by Amakura and with a few minutes between each ship the following went out:
Empire Carey, Empire Sunrise (bags of produce on foredeck, tanks on afterdeck), Montreal City, Sheaf Crown, Empire Marlowe (airplane crates and tanks), Sonja Mærsk (star placed on stack), Andreas (B on stack painted out), Kelbergen, Llancarvan, Kelvinbank, Michael L. Embiricos (blue E on black stack), Zagloba, Stockport (AHL on stack), Cetus, Badjestan, Mount Pera, Fort Townshend (troops, cars, trucks), and the last ship to go out at 13:48 was Belle Isle. (Iroquois is not mentioned and, therefore, station number is not known).

Related external links:
The loss of San Gerardo
The loss of Eastmoor

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