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CONVOY HX 167

Convoy HX 167 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Dec. 27-1941 and arrived Liverpool on Jan. 11-1942 (Arnold Hague gives 41 ships).
This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations.
(Received from Ted Agar, based on a diary).

Please see Convoy HX 167 (external page) for more complete information on this convoy, including escorts.

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

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
British
freighter
21
Lucerna
(Br)
31

*
41
British
freighter
51
Ville de Tamatave
(Br - ex Fr)
61
British
freighter
71

*
81
Empire Sapphire
(Br)
91
Empire Rainbow
(Br)
12
City of
Florence
(Br)
22
Norw.
freighter
32
Beaconhill*
(Br)
42
Suderøy
(Norw)
52
British
tanker
62
Abraham Lincoln
(Norw)
72
British
tanker
82
Sandanger
(Norw)
92
Dutch
freighter
13
Delta
(Am)
23
El Isleo
(Pa)
 33
Norman Prince
(Br)		 43 53
O. A. Knudsen
(Norw)		 63

*

 73
Norw.
tanker		 83
Cardium
(Br)		 93
British
freighter
14
British
freighter		 24
Manus*
(Am)		 34
Noreg
(Norw)		 44
Thorshavn*
(Norw)		 54
Dutch
freighter		 64
Lima
(Swe)		 74
Bralanta
(Norw)		 84
British
tanker		 94
Brabant
(Bel)
15 25
freighter
(no flag)		 35 45

*

 55
Meline
(Norw)		 65
Norw.
freighter		 75

*

 85

*

 95
According to a note for the slow Convoy SC 63, Empire Cloud, sailing in that convoy, came from HX 167.
Friar Rock, scheduled for SC 63, is also said to have come from HX 167.

The Rescue Vessel Rathlin was also with this convoy for a while, from joining to Clyde, Jan. 7 to Jan. 10-1942. She had been with ON 51 from Clyde to detachment to Iceland Dec. 28-Jan. 3, and was on her 4th voyage as Rescue Vessel, having been in her first convoy as such in Oct.-1941, ON 22. See ships in all ON convoys. ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).

According to A. Hague (via the external link to HX 167 provided above) the un-named ships in T. Agar's list were as follows:
Station 11 - British City of Eastbourne
Station 14 - British Empire Masefield
Station 22 - Norwegian Cetus
Station 25 - Panamanian Stone Street (returned)
Station 41 - British Empire Falcon
Station 52 - British British Resource
Station 54 - Dutch Djambi
Station 61 - British Orari
Station 65 - Norwegian Bonneville
Station 72 - British Regent Lion
Station 73 - Norwegian Herbrand
Station 84 - British Beaconoil
Station 92 - Dutch Edam
Station 93 - British Trentbank

* Instead of Beaconhill in station 32, he has the British Athelnight (Beaconhill is not included, nor is an American ship named Manus).
In station 44 he has the Norwegian Thorshavet instead of Thorshavn (the latter is not listed at all).
He has also added some ships in stations where none are named in T. Agar's list, namely:
The Dutch Ceronia (63), British Darina (45 - collided with Norwegian Meline Jan. 10-1942), British Gorjistan (85), Panamanian Leonatus (75), British Nea Hellas (31), British British Valour (43), and British Salacia (71).


List of ships according to sequence of departure:
The first ship to leave at 10:00 was the British Ville de Tamatave (Commodore ship), then 2 unnamed British freighters, City of Florence, Norwegian whale factory Suderøy (large motor boats, 1 stack in center of ship, 2 red bands painted on it), an unnamed Dutch freighter, and a Norwegian tanker, an unnamed British tanker, Norwegian Thorshavn (as mentioned above, this might have been the Norwegian Thorshavet), an unnamed Dutch tanker, Norwegian Bralanta, an unnamed British tanker, an unnamed Norwegian freighter, British Lucerna, an unnamed Dutch freighter (with a note saying "crew swabbing out gun at stern"), an unnamed freighter (ammunition, no flag), Panamanian El Isleo, an unnamed British freighter (with a note attached saying "fish for dinner, man on deck taking fish out of box), the Norwegian Meline, an unnamed British freighter, an unnamed, camouflaged British tanker (note says "probably Empire Sapphire"), followed by the British Norman Prince and Beaconhill (however, this may have been Beaconoil or Athelknight), the American Manus (camouflaged. Note: this may be an error - see my notes in the above table), the Swedish Lima, an unnamed British tanker, Norwegian Noreg, another unnamed British tanker, Norwegian O. A. Knudsen and an unnamed Norwegian freighter, British Cardium, Belgian Brabant, American Delta (2 large motor transports on deck, marked "Air Corps-U.S. Army", naval officers on deck and 1 bomber), the Norwegian Abraham Lincoln, an unnamed British freighter (airplane crates on deck), the Norwegian Sandanger, and the British Empire Rainbow as the last ship out at 12:58 (Hurricane XSY).

The alphabet index below is provided for easy access to more information on the Norwegian ships sailing in this convoy.

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