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CONVOY HX 174
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Departed Halifax on Febr. 7-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 21st (Arnold Hague gives 27 ships). This does not mean that all the ships arrived that port on that date; some ships had other destinations. |
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| List received from Ted Agar.
Info on the loss of Empire Comet was added with the help of "Axis Submarine Successes of World War II", Jürgen Rohwer. Br=British, Sw=Swedish, Du=Dutch, Pan=Panamanian, Am=American, Pol=Polish, Norw=Norwegian. |
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11
Primrose Hill (Br) |
21
Empire Lapwing (Br) |
31
King Lud* (Br) |
41
Port Melbourne (Br) |
51
El Argentino (Br) |
61
Comanchee (Br) |
71
Empire Flint (Br) |
81
British Ardour (Br) |
91
Tactician (Br) |
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12
Empire Comet sunk (Br) |
22
James Hawson (Norw) |
32
Høegh Giant (Norw) |
42
Fernwood (Norw) |
52
Southern Empress (Br) |
62
Vanja (Norw) |
72
Empire Onyx (Br) |
82
Nanking (Sw) |
92
Westland (Du) |
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13
Norwalk (Am) |
23
Norvinn (Pan) |
33 Saint Bertrand (Fr) |
43 Thorsholm (Norw) |
53 Anderson* (Norw) |
63 Athos (Norw) |
73 Elisha Walker (Br) |
83 Maja (Br) |
93 Lechistan (Pol) |
| 14 | 24 | 34 El Occidente (Pan) |
44 Beth (Norw) |
54 Patricia (Du) |
64 Daronia (Br) |
74 | 84 | 94 Gyda (Br) |
| * King Lud had been cancelled from the slow Convoy SC 68.
Additionally, according to a note for Convoy SC 70, the Dutch Aruba, sailing in that convoy, had originally been scheduled for HX 174. |
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Notes: Commodore was in El Argentino. Maja had originally been scheduled for the slow Convoy SC 67 James Hawson is also listed among the ships in the next convoy out, HX 175, which could mean she did not sail in HX 174(?), or perhaps she was on her way to an American port when she left Halifax on Febr. 7. I've been told by Marek, a Polish visitor to my site that the Polish Lechistan was late for convoy HX 174. She left Halifax on Febr. 7 at 10:35 hrs and had to chase the convoy and joined it only on Febr. 11. Gyda was originally Danish. Empire Onyx became the Norwegian M/T Nortind in March-1942. Elisha Walker is listed as American (Standard Oil Co.) in "The world's Merchant Fleets". Empire Comet became a straggler and was reported missing after Febr. 19. Sunk by U-136 on Febr. 17. *Anderson ran aground on Eastern Head on Febr. 9, 8 died - see my page about this ship. D/S Stockport was on her 3rd voyage as Rescue Ship, having been requisitioned as such on July 8-1941. She had followeed Convoy ON 65 from Clyde until detached to Reykjavik (from Febr. 8 to14), then returned to Clyde with HX 174, Febr. 17 to 21-1942. To the next HX convoy in my list HX 175 |
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