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CONVOY HX 189

Convoy HX 189 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on May 10-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 20th (Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 20 ships).
List received from Ted Agar, England. (His source: A diary).

Cargoes have been extracted from a document received from D. Kindell, based on the late Arnold Hague's database - see his listing for HX 189 at Ships in all HX convoys.

Br=British, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
11
Empire Ocean
grain
CAM ship
(Br)
21
Myrmidon
general
89 passengers
(Br)
31
Lochkatrine
general
6 passengers
(Br)
41
Manchester Commerce
general
(Br)
51
Banffshire
general
154 mails
(Br)
61
Winnipeg II
general
(Br)
71
Empire Spray
grain
CAM ship
(Br)
12
Salacia
general
(Br)
22
San Cipriano
petrol
(Br)
32
Regent Lion
petrol
(Br)
42
Kong Haakon VII
general
(Norw)
52
Empire Bittern
(Br)
62
Idefjord
general
(Norw)
72
Lancastrian Prince
general
(Br)
13
Empire Swan
general
(Br)
23
Waterland
general
1 passenger
(Du)
 33
Troubadour
general
(Norw)		 43
Empire Shearwater
steel
(Br)		 53
Empire Sailor
(Br)		 63
Scebeli
refrig. - general
(Norw)		 73
Olaf Bergh
general
(Norw)
14 24 34 44
Rathlin
(Br)
RV
See Notes below		 54
Fort Tadoussac
grain
(Br)		 64 74

Empire Sailor and Empire Bittern sailed in the next convoy.

The nationality for Troubadour in station 33 is given as Panamanian in the diary, but this was the Norwegian Troubadour. The Panamanian Troubador (note spelling) is listed as sailing in Convoy SC 79, which left Halifax on Apr. 11-1942.

A. Hague has listed Fort Tadoussac in station 52.


Notes:
According to the diary, the Rescue Vessel Rathlin was cancelled, but she is indeed listed as Rescue Vessel for this convoy in Arnold Hague's "Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945". He says she was on her 7th voyage as such, having started out from Clyde to Halifax (Apr. 23–May 5-1942) in Convoy ON 89, returning with HX 189 on May 10–May 20. (Rathlin had been requisitioned on July 28-1941). Elsewhere in the book he states that she "carried out 7 voyages without incident except heavy weather" then goes on to describe her 8th voyage which was with Convoy PQ 17. (Panamanian Troubador was also in that convoy).

The ships left port in the following sequence (according to the diary):
 The first ship out at 9:45 was the Norwegian Kong Haakon VII, followed at 10:30 by the British freighter Fort Tadoussac, then with a few minutes between each ship the following went out:

Lancastrian Prince, Manchester Commerce, Banffshire, Lochkatrine, Winnipeg II, Empire Ocean, Salacia, Empire Spray (Catapult freighter), Myrmidon, Empire Swan, San Cipriano, Regent Lion, Empire Shearwater, Waterland, Olaf Bergh, Troubadour, Scebeli, Idefjord (at 12:20).

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):
Assiniboine - From 14/05/42 to 20/05/42
Bodo
Buctouche - From 13/05/42 to 14/05/42
Calgary - From 10/05/42 to 13/05/42
Chambly - From 13/05/42 to 14/05/42
Columbia - From 10/05/42 to 13/05/42
Dianthus - From 13/05/42 to 20/05/42
FS Aconit - From 13/05/42 to 20/05/42
FS Mimosa - From 13/05/42 to 20/05/42
Midland - From 10/05/42 to 13/05/42
Nasturtium - From 13/05/42 to 20/05/42
St. Croix - From 14/05/42 to 14/05/42
Walker - From 10/05/42 to 13/05/42

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