Cargoes have been extracted from a document received from D. Kindell, based on the late Arnold Hague's database - see his listing for HX 177 at Ships in all HX convoys.

Underlined ships returned to port (according to A. Hague), except those that are linked, which will automatically be underlined.

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

Argos Hill and San Venancio are listed in the next convoy, HX 178.

According to A. Hague, Mormacrio became a straggler on March 2, while Toltén straggled on March 4 (see also HX 161, HX 162 and HX 168).

*A. Hague has listed some ships in stations where none are mentioned in the diary, namely:
In station 53 - The Belgian Emile Francqui, general cargo
In station 44 - The Dutch Stad Vlaardingen, general cargo

* See Convoy PQ 14 and QP 10
** See Convoy PQ 13 and QP 11.

The ships left Halifax in the following sequence (according to the diary):
The first ship to leave at 11:10 was Winnipeg II (Flagship - 4 masts), followed by Argos Hill 5 mins later, then Debrett (stack built into bridge, double doors on side of bridge, with curved tops over open doors), Tricula, Empire Diamond, Port Campbell, Jamaican Planter (2 decks, 1 mast, 1 low stack, broad narrow stack - GYVF), Drupa, Waterland (crated planes), Megara, Mormacmar, Thorshavet, San Venancio, British Zeal, Empire Coral, Empire Jet, Mormacrio, (with a notation saying "She has a lof of sand bags or other kind of bags on bridge, cylinder on top of house behind stack), Hopecastle, Southern Princess (whale oil factory, crated planes), Sourabaya (whale oil factory. Foremast and mainmast fairly close together, long opening in hull extending from foremast to mainmast, 1 stack with a small one alongside it in center of ship, 2 open decks under bridge, 2 posts in bow, 2 posts between bow and foremast, post behind mainmast and 2 posts towards stern), Catapult freighter Eastern City, Salamis, Stigstad and Toltén.

A. Hague names the following escorts (extracted from this list of HX convoy escorts, also received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year):
Barrie - From 01/03/42 to 09/03/42
Bodo - From 09/03/42 to 09/03/42
Chambly - From 01/03/42 to 08/03/42
Chedabucto - From 25/02/42 to 01/03/42
Lunenburg - From 25/02/42 to 01/03/42
Mayflower - From 01/03/42 to 08/03/42
Minas - From 25/02/42 to 28/02/42
Niagara - From 25/02/42 to 01/03/42
Rosthern - From 01/03/42 to 08/03/42
The Pas - From 25/02/42 to 01/03/42
USCGC Ingham - From 01/03/42 to 08/03/42
USS Niblack - From 01/03/42 to 08/03/42

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