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CONVOY HX 169

Convoy HX 169 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Jan. 8-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 23rd (Arnold Hague gives 36 ships).
This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations.
List received from Ted Agar.

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

Underlined ships returned to port.

Br=British, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Bel=Belgian, Pa=Panamanian, Ru=Russian.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Bayano
(Br)
21
Tilapa
(Br)
31
Corrales
(Br)
41
Ville d'Anvers
(Bel)
51
Manchester
Trader
(Br)
61

*
71
Beaverhill
(Br)
81
Freighter
(Br)
91
Australia Star
(Br)
12
Zuiderkerk
(Du)
22
Mangkalihat
(Du)
32
Tanker
(Br)
42
Tanker
(Norw)
52
Tanker
(Br)
62

*
72
Tanker
(Br)
82
Athelvictor
(Br)
92
Mentor
(Br)
13
Suriname
(Du)
23
Palembang
(Du)
 33
Tanker
(Br)		 43
Amsterdam*
(Du)		 53
Clavella
(Du)		 63 73
Tanker
(Br)		 83
Stiklestad
(Norw)		 93
Troubadour
(Norw)
14
Freighter
(Pa)		 24

*

 34
Tanker
(Norw)		 44
Tanker
(Norw)		 54
Taria
(Du)		 64
Tankexpress
(Norw)		 74
Thorshov
(Norw)		 84

*

 94
Freighter
(Norw)
15
Tbilisi**
(Ru)		 25 35
Tanker
(Br)		 45
Tanker
(Br)		 55
Moena
(Du)		 65
Brimanger
(Norw)		 75
Petter
(Norw)		 85 95
* Amsterdam (from HX 168) returned to port, then joined the slow Convoy SC 66 on Jan. 23.

** Joined Convoy PQ 9/PQ 10

The Rescue Vessel Perth was also with this convoy for a while - see Notes below.

Comparing this with what is found on this external page about HX 169, based on Arnold Hague's research, we find that the above un-named ships were:

In station 14 - Panamanian Africander. Collided with Palembang, returned in tow. Palembang also returned, having also collided with the Norwegian Norefjord.
In station 32 - British British Governor
In station 33 - British Davila
In station 34 - Norwegian Atlantic
In station 35 - British Alexia
In station 42 - Norwegian Kaldfonn
In station 44 - Norwegian Finnanger (detached Jan. 9, returned, listed in Convoy SC 65)
In station 45 - British British Yeoman
In station 52 - British Carelia
In station 72 - British Robert F. Hand
In station 73 - British Empire Pict
In station 81 - British Manchester Exporter
In station 94 - Norwegian Norefjord - Returned following collision with Palembang. (Listed in HX 175, returned. Joined HX 176).

*Additionally, A. Hague has included some ships in stations where none are listed in T. Agar's diary, as follows:
British Athelviscount (62)
British Empire Oil (24)
British Geo. W. McKnight (61)
British Taron (84)

A notation in Ted's diary states "No catapult freighters went out in convoy today. 39 ships went out in the convoy. Originally there were 42 but 3 were cancelled: Egda (Norw), Eidanger (Norw) and Athelqueen (Br. tanker)".
Also, there's a note in connection with the slow Convoy SC 65, saying that Boston City, sailing in that convoy, originally came from HX 169, as did the Norwegian Finnanger, as already mentioned. Similarly, a note for SC 64, states that Cloucester City in that convoy came from HX 169.

The ships left port in the following sequence:
The first to leave at 10:10 was the British Tilapa, followed 2 minutes later by the British Manchester Trader (Flagship - I assume this means she was the Commodore Ship), and - with a few minutes between each ship- the British freighters Corrales and Beaverhill, the Belgian passenger vessel Ville d'Anvers, the British freighter Australia Star, an unnamed British tanker (72 - according to A. Hague, this was Robert F. Hand), the Norwegian tanker Petter, 2 unnamed British tankers (52 and 35 - Carelia and Alexia), the Norwegian tanker Stiklestad and the Norwegian freighter Brimanger (LDKB), the Dutch freighter Zuiderkerk (PIYU), an unnamed British tanker (73 - in other words, Empire Pict as per A. Hague), an unnamed Norwegian freighter (94 - Norefjord), the Dutch freighter Mangkalihat followed by 2 unnamed British tankers (32 and 45 - British Governor and British Yeoman), the British passenger vessel Bayano, an unnamed British tanker (33 - Davila), the British tanker Athelvictor, the Dutch tanker Clavella and the Dutch passenger vessel Suriname, an unnamed Norwegian tanker (34 - Atlantic), the Norwegian freighter Troubadour (crated aircraft on deck), the Dutch freighter Palembang (PGQE), the Dutch tanker Taria, an unnamed British freighter (81 - Manchester Exporter), a Panamanian freighter (this must have been Africander), the Russian freighter Tbilisi (OUXB), the Dutch tanker Amsterdam, the Dutch freighter Moena (PGAO), and unnamed Norwegian tanker (44 - Finnanger), the British passenger vessel Mentor followed 6 mins later, at 13:15, by an unnamed Norwegian tanker (42 - Kaldfonn). For 14:00 the diary says: "Tankexpress, Norse tanker, 69. After she passed the Tower she took down her convoy flags and hoisted "F". Then she rang up 64" (in other words, she must have had the wrong pendants up). The last ship to leave at 15:00 was the Norwegian tanker Thorshov (LJBM).

All the Norwegian ships mentioned here are further discussed in the alphabetical ship lists of this website.

Rescue Ship for the last part of the way was Perth, on her 12th voyage as rescue vessel, having been requisitioned as such on Oct. 14-1940. She had started this journey from Clyde on Jan. 9 with Convoy ON 55 until detached on Jan. 15 (see ships in all ON convoys), then joined HX 169 on Jan. 17 ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).

Escorts:
Named on this external page about HX 169

To the next HX convoy in my list HX 170


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