M/S Buenos Aires

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Source: Sverre Johansen's collection.

Misc. Convoy Voyages:

Note that Buenos Aires is also listed in several westbound North Atlantic convoys, sailing in between the eastbound HX convoys mentioned on this page, and in addition to ON 270 already noted. These will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course, and my text on this page will be altered to show her voyages in chronological order. In the meantime, please go to these convoys in the section listing the ships in all ON convoys, and by looking at the dates, combined with the dates for the eastbound convoys listed below, it should be possible to get an overall picture of her voyages back and forth. As will be seen, she appears in the following:
Convoy ON 48 - Dec.-1941, bound for New York with China clay.
Convoy ON 179 - Apr.-1943, bound for Portland, Maine with coal
Convoy ON 192 - July-1943
Convoy ON 200 - Sept.-1943
Convoy ON 210 - Nov.-1943
Convoy ON 218 - Dec.-1943/Jan.-1944
Convoy ON 228 - March-1944
Convoy ON 236 - May-1944
Convoy ON 244 - July-1944
Convoy ON 257 - Oct.-1944
Convoy ON 287 - Febr.-1945
Convoy ON 299 - Apr.-1945

Buenos Aires was in Convoy HX 160 in Nov.-1941, together with several other Norwegian ships.

The external website that I've linked to at the end of this text has her in Convoy SL 126, which left Freetown on March 12-1943 and arrived Liverpool on Apr. 1. She had a general cargo, voyaging from Calcutta/Vizagapatam to Belfast and Avonmouth.

In the summer of 1943 she sailed in Convoy HX 244, which left New York on June 15 and arrived Liverpool on the 30th. Her destination is given as Swansea, general cargo. By the beginning of Aug. that year she was back in New York, leaving with Convoy HX 251 on Aug. 7, general cargo for Liverpool, station 142. This convoy had a lot of Norwegian ships, as will be seen by following the link.

In Febr.-1944 she's listed in Convoy HX 279 from New York, bound for Liverpool with general cargo, and in Apr. we find her in Convoy HX 287, again with general cargo for Liverpool. In June-1944 she shows up in Convoy HX 295 and that fall, in Sept.-1944, she's listed in Convoy HX 307 along with 7 other Norwegian ships, namely Fagerfjell, Frontenac, Idefjord, John Bakke, Kaia Knudsen, Thorsholm and Stiklestad, all listed on this website. Buenos Aires' destination is given as Mersey on that occasion, general cargo as well as 17 Alligators, station 71, sailing right next to the Commodore's ship which in this case was the Norwegian John Bakke. In Nov. of that same year she sailed in Convoy HX 318, bound for Glasgow with general cargo, again in the company of several other Norwegian ships, then early the following month she returned with the westbound Convoy ON 270, station 101.

In Jan.-1945 she was scheduled to go back to the U.K. with Convoy HX 332 (in which Solør was torpedoed), but did not sail. She was also cancelled from the next convoy, HX 333, but did get away with HX 334, general and explosives for Hull.

Related external link:
SL convoys and OS/KMS Convoys - The site also has a section for the Russian convoys and OB convoys, and a very useful Multi-Convoy Web Search feature - here's the main page. As can be seen, Buenos Aires is mentioned among the ships in SL 126.

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