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CONVOY HX 197
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Departed Halifax on July 6-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 17th (Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 24 ships). |
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| List received from Ted Agar. (His source: A diary).
Cargoes and some aditional info have been extracted from a document received from D. Kindell, based on the late Arnold Hague's database - see his listing for HX 197 at Ships in all HX convoys. Underlined ships returned to port (according to A. Hague), including the Norwegian Belinda. (The stations given below are at time of departure, and may have changed as the voyage progressed). See also Convoy ON 99. Br=British, Fr=French, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Sw=Swedish, Am=American, Gr=Greek. |
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11
Empire Ray grain CAM ship (Br) |
21
Ville de Tamatave general 12 passengers (Fr / MoWT 1941) |
31
Manchester Citizen general 3 passengers (Br) |
41
Cairnesk general 2561 mails 5 passengers (Br) |
51
Corrales refrig. - general (Br) |
61
Beaverhill general 2804 mails 22 passengers (Br) |
71
Lancastrian Prince general (Br) |
81
John A. Brown aviation gas (Br) |
91 Pacific Enterprise general (Br) |
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12
Gerassimos Vergottis general (Gr) |
22
Myrmidon general 140 passengers (Br) |
32
Dorcasia petrol (Br) |
42
San Ambrosio petrol - naphtha (Br) |
52
Ocean Volunteer general - timber (Br) |
62
Gdynia general (Sw) |
72
Pan Georgia petrol (Am) |
92 Ulysses general (Du) |
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13
Bretwalda steel - general (Br) |
23
Settler general - grain (Br) |
33 Ocean Courage general (Br) |
43 Anniston City? general (Am) Diloma? |
53 Waterland general (Du) |
63 Empire Dickens petrol (Br) |
73 | 83 | 93 Empire Plover general (Br) |
| 14 | 24 | 34 | 44 | 54 | 64 Ocean Veteran general (Br) |
74 | 84 | 94 |
| Anniston City and Diloma have both been given station 43 in the diary - hence my question marks (but see A. Hague's details below).
A note in connection with the slow Convoy SC 91 states that the American Thomas Ruffin, sailing in that convoy, originally came from HX 197. When comparing this information with A. Hague's listing for HX 197 at Ships in all HX convoys, we see that he has also included Egyptian Prince in this convoy (general cargo and explosives), but no station number is given. This ship had returned to port from Convoy HX 194, following a collision. He says Empire Ray returned following a collision with Waterland, which also returned (this seems odd, because as can be seen, they sailed quite a distance apart). He says Belinda also returned as did Gerassimos Vergottis - reason not given for the latter 2 ships. Empire Ray is listed in HX 199, while the other 3 joined HX 198. A. Hague adds that Empire Plover became a straggler (no date given). He has Diloma in station 43, Anniston City in station 73 and agrees with Myrmidon in station 22, but has also listed the British Saint Bertrand in the same station, general cargo (this ship is not mentioned for HX 197 in the diary, but in the next convoy). |
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| The ships went out in the following order (according to the diary): The first to leave at 13:14 was Beaverhill, followed at 13:20 by Corrales, then with a few minutes between each ship Empire Ray (Catapult freighter), Lancastrian Prince, Ville de Tamatave, Empire Plover, Manchester Citizen, Bretwalda, Gerassimos Vergottis, Gdynia, Empire Dickens, Ocean Volunteer, Anniston City, Waterland, Ocean Veteran, Pan Georgia, Pacific Enterprise, Belinda, John A. Brown, Myrmidon, San Ambrosio, Cairnesk, Dorcasia, Settler, Ulysses, Diloma, and the last to leave at 14:55 was Ocean Courage. 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): To the next HX convoy in my list HX 198 |
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