Convoy stations are not known.

A document listing all the Norway-U.K. Convoys states that HN 3 had 11 British, 1 Finnish and 2 Estonian ships, for a total of 14. There are more than 14 named here.

The convoy consisted of the following ships (dates are given European style, with day/month/year):

British Baltrover - for London.
Left Trondheim 27.11.1939.
Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 04.12.1939
Arrived Leith 07.12.1939 - Left Leith 07.12.1939
Arrived Shields 09.12.1939 - Left Shields 10.12.1939
Arrived Cottons Wharf / Hays Wharf London 13.12.1939

British Folda - for Grangemouth.
Sailed Trondheim 22.11.1939
Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 03.12.1939
Arrived Grangemouth 03.12.1939

Finnish Bore III - for Hull.
Sailed Kotka 09.11.1939
Arrived Degerby ?
Sailed Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 04.12.1939
Arrived Hull 06.12.1939

British Treworlas - No further voyage details available at this time.

Estonian Mall - for Grimsby.
Sailed Archangel ?
Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 04.12.1939
Arrived Grimsby 06.12.1939

British Asiatic - for Hartlepool.
Sailed Murmansk ?
Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 03.12.1939
Arrived Hartlepool 04.12.1939

British Glen Tilt - for Grangemouth.
Sailed Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 03.12.1939
Arrived Grangemouth 03.12.1939
Arrived Granton 08.12.1939

Estonian Kalev - for Kings Lynn.
Sailed Archangel ?
Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 04.12.1939
Arrived Sunderland 04.12.1939

British Majorca - for Grangemouth.
Arrived Namsos 12.11.1939 - Left Namsos 14.11.1939
Arrived Bergen 07.11.1939 - Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 03.12.1939
Arrived Grangemouth 03.12.1939

British Amicus - No further voyage details available at this time.

British King Edwin - for London.
Sailed Archangel ?
Sailed Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads 03.12.1939
Arrived Shields 03.12.1939 - Left Shields 05.12.1939
Arrived Surrey Commerical Dock London 08.12.1939

British Thistleford - for London.
Sailed Archangel ?
Sailed Tromso 16.11.1939
Arrived Narvik 17.11.1939 - Left Narvik 17.11.1939
Arrived Bergen ? - Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Methil Roads 03.12.1939 - Left Methil Roads ?
Arrived Shields 05.12.1939 - Left Shields 09.12.1939
Arrived Surrey Commerical Docks London 11.12.1939

British Clarissa Radcliffe - No further voyage details available at this time.

British Stancourt
Sailed Odda ?
Left Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Sheerness 06.12.1939

British Ogmore Castle - for Preston.
Sailed Archangel 05.11.1939
Arrived Tromso ?
Sailed Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Preston ?

British Sea Valour - for Bristol.
Sailed Archangel ?
Sailed Bergen 29.11.1939
Arrived Bristol 06.12.1939

British Eskdene - for Hull (from Bergen).
Became detached from convoy in fog between 19:30 on Dec. 1 and 05:00 Dec. 2 and later reported having struck a mine. However, she had, in fact, been torpedoed by U-56. (For further details, see Uboat.net's info on this incident - external link). It's also mentioned on my page about Rudolf (in my text about the Swedish Rudolf).

Additionally, a document received from D. Kindell (based on Arnold Hague's research) also lists the British Albionic in this convoy. This ship is not mentioned in a report by HMS Eskimo (Commander J. A. Micklethwait), dated Dec. 4-1949. I have Albionic in the next convoy, HN 4.

HN 3 was dispersed off Methil Roads at 02:50 on Dec. 3.

Escorts:
HMS Eskimo (S.O.), Matabele, Icarus and Ilex (which had also escorted the outbound Convoy ON 3). For additional info, see this document, listing escorts for all HN and ON convoys.

See also the 8th paragraph in the text under Nov. 30 on this external page.

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