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CONVOY CU 1
Departed Curacao on March 20-1943 and arrived Liverpool on Apr. 1.

See also Ships in all CU convoys (includes tonnage of each ship, and year built), and Escorts for all CU convoys.

Arnold Hague says with regard to the CU convoys:
"Following the North African landings and the resultant high expenditure of fuel from UK stocks, it was requested that additional supplies should be shipped to the UK. There was some reluctance to do this on the US side but eventually 9 convoys totalling 159 ships, of which 145 were tankers, took place during 1943. The demands for fuel escalated towards the end of 1943 and the convoy series was reorganized accordingly. The fast tanker tonnage was now utilised on the New York to UK route, oil supplies being freighted from the Caribbean fields in older, slower vessels".

CU 1 through CU 4 had departure port Curacao for Liverpool.
CU 5 started out from New York City to Liverpool.
CU 6 originated in Curacao again.
The rest of the CU series - CU 7 through CU 73 - departed from New York City. (The latter had 2 ships and left New York on May 30-1945).


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

All these ships were American.
Ship
Cargo
Caribbean
petrol
Colina
lub. oil
E. W. Sinclair
fuel oil
Esso Paterson
fuel oil
Esso Philadelphia
FFO - Escort Oiler
Esso Wilmington
petrol
Oklahoma
paraffin
Sparrows Point
petrol
Virginia
petrol

Notes:
Commodore's notes are not available.

Escorts (dates are European style, day/month/year):
Attacker - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43
Exe - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43
Folkestone - 29/03/43 to 01/04/43
Gorleston - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43
Ness - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43
Totland - 29/03/43 to 01/04/43
USS Hilary P. Jones - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43
USS Hughes - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43
USS Lansdale - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43
USS Madison - 20/03/43 to 01/04/43

Related external links:
North America–U.K. Convoys 1943 - Listing of HX, SC and CU convoys for 1943, in chronological order.

List of T2 Tankers

The T 2 Tanker Page

CU convoys

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