The stations given below are at time of departure, and may have changed as the voyage progressed.

Please note that more ships are named in Notes below (convoy stations were not known). Also, compare Ted's list with the information found in the 2nd table further down on this page.

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Du=Dutch, Pa=Panamanian.

*The Panamanian Norvik is not included in A. Hague's listing for HX 159.

According to Ted's diary, the ships departed Halifax in the following order (some of these are not named in the above table):
The first to leave at 11:15 was the British Princesa (white fishtail with blue cross - Commodore Vesssel), followed 3 minutes later by the British Daltonhall and with a few minutes between each ship thereafter British Ardour, Grey County, Turkistan, Albion Star, a Dutch tanker, then Alcedo and a British freighter (in station 93, C on stack), a Norwegian tanker (32), then Glittre followed by 3 British tankers and a British freighter (station 92, 5 masts), Innerøy, Idefjord (at 12:17).

Then there's a notation saying "British Hussar (Br. tanker), Empire Bittern and Eurybates (Br. freighter) went out in convoy today, but most of the ships did not have names on them".

At 12:21 a tanker went out - no nationality given - then a British tanker followed by Sovac (S on stack) and a British freighter, Nueva Granada (Texaco on stack, also "T"), Slemmestad, Taybank, British Confidence, City of Manila, Manchester Division, Norvik (Panamanian flag, Norwegian managers and therefore, listed on this website - as can be seen, this ship is not included in A. Hague's listing below). The last vessel to leave at 14:12 was the Norwegian Kaldfonn.

Underlined ship returned to port.

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Du=Dutch, Pa=Panamanian, Am=American.

Empire Bittern is listed in the next convoy.

*El Oceano is listed in Convoy PQ 6 from Hvalfjord to Murmansk on Dec. 8-1941.

**Helgøy arrived in tow after engine room explosion (follow link to Helgøy).

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