D/S Askepot
Updated March 21-2008

To Askepot on the "Ships starting with A" page.


From George Robinson, the webmaster of Riversea International, who has also provided the post war details.

Voyage Record From July-1942 to May-1945:

(Received from Don Kindell - His source: The late Arnold Hague's database.

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1942	July 15	Boston	Halifax	July 17	BX 29	Bound for Sydney C.B. See BX 29 (external link)
	July 22	Halifax	Sydney, C.B.	July 23	HS 33	See HS 33 (external link)
	July 26	Sydney, C.B.	Greenland	Aug. 3	SG 3	See SG 3 (external link)
	Aug. 25	Greenland	Sydney, C.B.	Sept. 1	GS 6	See GS 6 (external link)
	Sept. 2	Sydney, C.B.	Halifax	Sept. 4	SH 40	See SH 40 (external link)
	Sept. 6	Halifax	Cape Cod Canal	Sept. 8	XB 37	See XB 37 (external link)
	Sept. 8	Cape Cod Canal	New York City	Sept. 9	Independent	–
	Sept. 13	New York City	Boston	Sept. 14	Independent	–
	Sept. 21	Boston	New York City	Sept. 23	Independent	–
	Sept. 24	New York City	Halifax	Sept. 27	HX 209	–
	Sept. 29	Halifax	Sydney, C.B.	Oct. 1	HS 55	See HS 55 (external link)
	Oct. 8	Sydney, C.B.	Kungnait Bay	Oct. 16	SG 10	See SG 10 (external link)
	Oct. 31	Greenland	Botwood	Nov. 5	GS 12	Arrived at Botwood. See GS 12 (external link)
	Nov. 11	Botwood	St. John's, N.F.	Nov. 13	NJ 21	See NJ 21 (external link)
	Nov. 14	St. John's, N.F.	Sydney, C.B.	Nov. 17	WB 13	See WB 13 (external link)
	Nov. 17	Sydney, C.B.	Halifax	Nov. 19	SH 62	See SH 62 (external link)
	Nov. 21	Halifax	New York City	Nov. 25	ON 145	Will be updated See ships in ON convoys
	Dec. 13	New York City	St. John's, N.F.	Dec. 21	HX 219	–
1943	Jan. 6	St. John's, N.F.	Greenland	Jan. 11	SG 17	See SG 17 (external link)
	Jan. 27	Greenland	St. John's, N.F.	Febr. 2	GS 19	See GS 19 (external link)
	Febr. 7	St. John's, N.F.	Halifax	Febr. 13	ON 163	Convoy will be added See ships in ON convoys
	Febr. 15	Halifax	New York City	Febr. 19	ON 164	–
	Febr. 19	Boston	New York City	Febr. 20	Independent	–
	Febr. 20	New York City	Newport, R.I.	Febr. 21	Independent	–
	Febr. 28	Newport, R.I.	New York City	March 1	Independent	–
	March 5	New York City	Loch Ewe	March 23	SC 122	Bound for Iceland
	March 24	Loch Ewe	Reykjavik	March 28	UR 68	See UR 68 (external link)
	Apr. 3	Reykjavik	Halifax	Apr. 19	ONS 2	Joined from Iceland Apr. 5, for Halifax. Convoy will be added See ships in ONS convoys
	Apr. 29	Halifax	Sheet Harbour	May 1	HJ 49	See HJ 49 (external link)
	May 6	Sheet Harbour	Halifax	May 7	JH 52	See JH 52 (external link)
	May 10	Halifax	Cape Cod Canal	May 12	XB 51	See XB 51 (external link)
	May 31	New York City	St. John's, N.F.	June 8	HX 242	See also HX 242 (external link - more complete info)
	June 9	*St. John's, N.F.	Clarenville	June 10	JN 31	See JN 31 (external link)
	June 18	*St. John's, N.F.	Sydney, C.B.	June 20	CL 71	See CL 71 (external link)
*There might be a voyage missing in between the above 2 entries.
	June 23	Sydney, C.B.	Halifax	June 25	SH 88	See SH 88 (external link)
	June 27	Halifax	Cape Cod Canal	June 29	XB 60	See XB 60 (external link)
	June 29	Cape Cod Canal	New York City	June 30	Independent	–
	July 4	New York City	Boston	July 5	Independent	–
	Aug. 1	Boston	Halifax	Aug. 3	BX 66	See BX 66 (external link)
	Aug. 4	Halifax	Sydney, C.B.	Aug. 6	HS 100	See HS 100 (external link)
	Aug. 8	Sydney, C.B.	St. John's, N.F.	Aug. 10	BW 49	See BW 49 (external link)
	Aug. 12	St. John's, N.F.	Greenland	Aug. 20	SG 29	See SG 29 (external link)
	Oct. 25	Greenland	St. John's, N.F.	Oct. 30	GS 34	Probably this Convoy. See GS 34 (external link)
	Nov. 1	Argentia	Boston	Nov. 5	ARG 3	See ARG 3 (external link)
	Dec. 13	Boston	Searsport	Dec. 19	Independent	–
	Dec. 26	Searsport	New York City	Dec. 28	Independent	–
	Dec. 29	New York City	Hampton Roads	Dec. 30	Independent	–
1944	Jan. 6	Hampton Roads	New York City	Jan. 8	Independent	–
	Jan. 17	New York City	Gitmo	Jan. 23	NG 411	See NG 411 (external link)
	Jan. 23	Gitmo	San Juan, P.R.	Jan. 25	–	–
	Febr. 2	San Juan, P.R.	Gitmo	Febr. 4	–	–
	Febr. 8	Gitmo	New York City	Febr. 15	GN 113	Onward to Boston, arriving Febr. 16. See GN 113 (external link)
	Febr. 25	New York City	Havana	March 2	NK 598	Detached to Havana, March 2, arrived March 2. See NK 598 (external link)
	March 5	Havana	Matanzas	March 5	Independent	–
	March 8	Matanzas	Key West	March 8	Independent	–
	March 9	Key West	New York City	March 16	KN 300	Onward to Boston, arriving March 17. See KN 300 (external link)
	March 21	Boston	Searsport	March 24	Independent	–
	March 25	Searsport	New York City	March 26	Independent	–
	March 27	New York City	Savannah	March 30	–	–
	Apr. 4	Tybee Roads	Sagua	Apr. 6	Independent	–
	Apr. 9	Sagua	Savannah	Apr. 11	Independent	–
	Apr. 16	Tybee Roads	Sagua	Apr. 18	Independent	–
	Apr. 20	Sagua	Key West	Apr. 21	Independent	–
	Apr. 23	Key West	New York City	Apr. 29	KN 309	Onward to Boston, arriving Apr. 29. See KN 309 (external link)
	May 3	Boston	New York City	May 5	Independent	–
	May 6	New York City	Sagua	May 11	Independent	–
	May 13	Sagua	Key West	May 14	Independent	–
	May 18	Key West	New York City	May 23	KN 314	Onward to Boston, arriving May 24. See KN 314 (external link)
	June 10	Boston	Argentia	June 14	–	–
	June 16	Argentia	Greenland	–	–	–
	Aug. 16	Ivigtut	Boston	Aug. 26	GS 50	See GS 50 (external link)
	Aug. 26	Boston	New York City	Aug. 27	Independent	–
	Sept. 5	New York City	Baltimore	Sept. 6	Independent	–
	Sept. 8	Baltimore	New York City	Sept. 9	Independent	–
	Sept. 10	Sandwich, Mass	St. John, N.B.	Sept. 12	Independent	–
	Sept. 20	St. John, N.B.	Walton, N.S.	Sept. 23	Independent	–
	Sept. 23	Walton	Philadelphia	Sept. 27	Independent	–
	Sept. 30	Baltimore	New York City	Oct. 1	Independent	–
	Oct. 2	New York City	St. John, N.B.	Oct. 4	Independent	–
	Oct. 10	St. John, N.B.	Windsor, N.S.	–	Independent	–
	Oct. 12	Windsor, N.S.	New York City	Oct. 15	Independent	–
	Oct. 18	New York City	Boston	Oct. 19	Independent	–
	Oct. 29	Boston	Halifax	Oct. 31	BX 131	See BX 131 (external link)
	Nov. 1	Halifax	Sydney, C.B.	Nov. 2	Independent	–
	Nov. 3	Sydney, C.B.	St. John's, N.F.	Nov. 5	BW 146	See BW 146 (external link)
	Nov. 12	St. John's, N.F.	Sydney, C.B.	Nov. 14	WB 138	See WB 138 (external link)
	Nov. 14	Sydney, C.B.	Corner Brook	Nov. 15	SB 91	See SB 91 (external link)
	Nov. 20	Corner Brook	Sydney, C.B.	Nov. 21	–	–
	Nov. 22	Sydney, C.B.	Halifax	Nov. 23	SH 183	See SH 183 (external link)
	Nov. 24	Halifax	Cape Cod Canal	Nov. 26	XB 135	See XB 135 (external link)
	Nov. 26	Cape Cod Canal	Hampton Roads	Nov. 28	Independent	–
	Dec. 3	Cape Henry	St. John, N.B.	Dec. 6	Independent	–
	Dec. 14	St. John, N.B.	New York City	Dec. 17	Independent	–
	Dec. 19	New York City	Philadelphia	Dec. 19	Independent	–
	Dec. 24	Philadelphia	Sagua	Dec. 29	Independent	–
	Dec. 30	Sagua	Key West	Jan. 1-1945	Independent	–
1945	Jan. 1	Key West	Boston	Jan. 7	Independent	–
	Jan. 10	Boston	New York City	Jan. 11	Independent	–
	Jan. 28	New York City	Caimarien	Febr. 3	Independent	–
	Febr. 5	Caibarien	Miami	Febr. 6	Independent	–
	Febr. 7	Miami	Boston	Febr. 11	Independent	–
	Febr. 13	Boston	New York City	Febr. 15	Independent	–
	Febr. 15	New York City	Cape Henry	–	Independent	–
	Febr. 17	Cape Henry	Sagua	Febr. 21	Independent	–
	Febr. 23	Sagua	Key West	Febr. 24	Independent	–
	Febr. 24	Key West	New York City	Febr. 28	Independent	–
	March 7	New York City	Boston	March 8	Independent	–
	March 13	Boston	Halifax	March 15	BX 150	See BX 150 (external link)
	March 17	Halifax	Belfast Lough	March 31	SC 170	See SC 170 (external link)
	Apr. 4	Belfast Lough	Reykjavik	Apr. 11	UR 159	See UR 159 (external link)
	Apr. 22	Reykjavik	Belfast Lough	Apr. 28	RU 160	See RU 160 (external link)
	May 3	Belfast Lough	–	–	ONS 49	For Boston. Convoy will be added See ships in ONS convoys
	May 17	Joined XB 164	Boston	May 19	XB 164	See XB 164 (external link)

Further to the above:

(Note that only a few of her voyages are mentioned here. For information on voyages in between those discussed below, please go back to the Voyage Record).

Unfortunately, I have no information on Askepot's early war voyages.

As can be seen in the Voyage Record, she shows up in a Convoy to Greenland in July-1942, namely Convoy SG 3, which left Sydney, C.B. on July 26 and arrived Greenland on Aug. 2. Please see the external link provided within the record. In Sept. she's listed in Convoy HX 209, but she only went as far as Halifax, rather than following this convoy to the U.K. Her final destination was Greenland; see Voyage Record (she's included in the Halifax portion of the Advance Sailing Telegram for this convoy, that is, among the ships that joined from Halifax, but she actually joined at New York, then proceeded to Halifax). In Nov. that same year she was in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 145 (will be updated), but joined from Halifax, travelling to New York City; in other words, she was not present from the U.K. She was reported and reprimanded for straggling and failing to keep station. In the opinion of the Senior Officer Lt Commander Mackay RNR "she endangered both herself and the convoy as she never caught up with the main body till arrival in port". The following month she joined Convoy HX 219 from New York, sailing as far as St. John's only, carrying Army stores, station 11. From there, she subsequently made a voyage to Greenland and back in Jan/Febr.-1943.

In Febr.-1943 she joined the westbound Convoy ON 163*, which had originated in Liverpool on Jan. 24 and arrived New York on Febr. 16, Askepot joining from St. John's, travelling as far as Halifax. She shows up again in the next westbound convoy, ON 164, sailing with it from Halifax to New York (station 53), arriving on Febr. 19 (Febr. 20?). This is not noted in her Voyage Record, but at the end of that month she's mentioned in the Advance Sailing Telegram for Convoy HX 228 from New York (in which Brant County was later sunk), with a note saying "not for U.K." According to the Voyage Record she was at Newport, R.I. on the date this convoy departed New York (Febr. 28), sailing independently to New York City with arrival there on March 1. On March 5 she shows up in one of the convoys discussed in more detail under M/S Abraham Lincoln (SC 122 / HX 229). Gudvor, Polarland and Askepot had started out from New York in Convoy SC 122, but only Askepot, bound for Reykjavik, was present when the attacks started, the other 2 having lost the convoy in a storm and returned to port. The battle lasted for 5 days and when it was over on March 20, 22 merchant ships had been sunk, with HX 229 being the hardest hit (Abraham Lincoln was the Commodore Vessel for HX 229 in which Elin K was sunk). Follow the links for more information. Askepot subsequently returned across the ocean in Apr.-1943 with Convoy ONS 2*, joining from Iceland on Apr. 5 (Ingerfire was sunk). This convoy had originated in Liverpool on March 28 and arrived Halifax, Askepot's destination, on Apr. 19. According to Arnold Hague, she made a voyage from New York to St. John's with Convoy HX 242 at the end of May - as can be seen when following the link, she's not mentioned on my own page about this convoy, but some ships may be missing from my documents; see the external link provided in the above Voyage Record.

Please go back to the Voyage Record for information on the rest of her 1943 voyages, as well as her 1944 and 1945 voyages. As can be seen, she appears in Convoy SC 170, which departed Halifax on March 17-1945 and arrived Liverpool on the 31st. Askepot, however, was bound for Reykjavik again, where she arrived, via Belfast Lough for a UR convoy, on Apr. 11. The Norwegian Biscaya, Brønnøy, Brush, Chr. Th. Boe, Frontenac, Geisha, Romulus, Tercero and Titanian are also included in this convoy, which is not available on my own site. On VE Day she was en route to Boston in station 34 of the westbound Convoy ONS 49*, joining from Belfast Lough (convoy departed Liverpool May 2, arrived Halifax May 18).

* All the ON and ONS convoys will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course, with more information on each, but in the meantime, see the section for ships in all ON convoys and the page naming ships in all ONS convoys; as can be seen, they all had several Norwegian ships.

For more information on the other Norwegian ships mentioned here, please see the alphabet index below, or go to the Master Ship Index.

POST WAR:

Sailed as Pakistan Progress for Karachi Steam Nav. Co. from 1957, Shafaat for East Bengal S.S. Co. from 1962. Still listed in Lloyd's Register in 1964, but not in 1966.

Related external links:
HX 229, 16-19 March | SC 122, 17 -19 March

List of Greenland Convoys - Convoy SG 3 is included. Here's the the main page.

Misc. convoys - By clicking on "Ship Search", using "Askepot" as keyword, several convoys will come up. I've linked directly to them within the above Voyage Record.

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