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CONVOY HX 291
Departed New York on May 10-1944 and arrived Liverpool on May 27.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 99 ships in this convoy.

Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.

Crossed out ships did not sail.

A 1 form is not available and, therefore, the station numbers are not known.

Please note that the sailing date for the ships Scorton through Thomas Bailey Aldrich is given as May 13, which makes me wonder if these ships joined from Sydney, C.B and/or Halifax(?). This suspicion is further reinforced by the fact that some of the ships listed as cancelled show up again in the Sydney portion of the next convoy, others in the Halifax portion of HX 294 - note also that Daniel Drake, listed in this batch of ships, had been cancelled from the Halifax portion of the previous convoy.

Ship
Nationality
Cargo
Destination
Remarks
Scorton
British
grain - general
Tyne
Dimitrios Inglessis
Greek
grain
Methil f. o. (London)
Anna N. Goulandris
"
flour - grain
Methil f. o. (London)
From HX 288
(Halifax portion)
Euthalia
"
flour - airplane wings
London
Fjordheim
Norwegian
general
Belfast f. o. (Swansea)
Ragnhild
"
pit props
Garston
(Ex Empire Carey)
Aert van der Neer
Dutch
none given
Methil f. o. (London)
Belgian Seaman
Belgian
steel - lumber
Methil f. o. (London)
Clan Macinnes
British
general
Leith
Oregon I*
Danish / MOWT 1940
flour
Hull
* I'm unsure of the identity of this ship, which is initially listed as Oregon in the Advance Sailing Telegram, and the "I" is added in by hand. The Danish Oregon came under British control in 1940 and was renamed Oregon I. However, the tonnage is given as 7706 gt in the AST, which fits with the French Orégon (the Danish Oregon being 4774 gt)
Condesa
British
general - refrig.
Cardiff
Gerassimos Vergottis
Greek
grain
Methil f. o. (London)
Acavus
British
Adm. special Navy fuel (tanker)
Clyde
Cornwall
"
general - refrig.
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
(Sydney, C.B. section)
Daniel Drake
American
grain - general
Avonmouth
From HX 290
(Halifax portion)
Dimitrios Chandris
Greek
grain - general
Mersey
John Mitchell
American
wood pulp
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
(Sydney, C.B. section)
John L. Manson
"
steel - lumber
Grimsby
From HX 288
Miralda
British
Adm. special Navy fuel
(tanker, MAC)
Clyde
Mount Kyllene
Greek
general
Avonmouth
Listed in HX 292
(Sydney, C.B. section)
Albert S. Burleson
American
general
Glasgow
Dolly Madison
"
general - explosives
Liverpool
Eliphalet Nott
"
general - explosives
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
(Sydney, C.B. section)
Frank Gilbreth
"
general
Glasgow
John Holmes
"
general - diesel oil
Mersey
Norse Lady
Norwegian
wood pulp
Glasgow
Listed in HX 294
(Halifax portion)
Picotee
British
steel - lumber
Methil f. o. (London)
Pleiades
American
general
Belfast / Loch Ewe for Iceland
(See also RU 123)
Royal S. Copeland
"
none given
Belfast f. o.
Samfoyle
British
lumber - tanks - steel
Tyne
Sheridan
"
grain - general
Manchester
Listed in HX 294
(Halifax portion)
Sulphur Bluff
American
gas oil tanker
Belfast Dock
Tercero
Norwegian
general - explosives
Hull
Thomas Kearns
American
foodstuffs
Belfast f. o.
Winfield Scott
"
grain - general
Liverpool
William Black Yates
"
general - explosives
Sunderland
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"
general - flour
Liverpool
As already mentioned further up in this table, the sailing date for all of the above ships is given as May 13, but there's no text to help me determine whether they originated in Sydney, C.B. or possibly Halifax.

The date for the rest of the ships (except for the 2 Newfoundland ships) starting with Samfinn is given as May 10-1944, with departure port New York.

Samfinn
British
general
Liverpool
From HX 290
Deborah Gannett
American
general
Hull
From HX 290
Anniston City
"
general
Liverpool
From HX 290
Moses Cleaveland
"
general
Liverpool / Manchester
From HX 290
British Governor
British
Adm.
Clyde
Empire Blessing
"
sugar
Inverness Firth(?) f. o.
Empire Granite
"
none given
Belfast Dock
From HX 289
Gitano
"
general
Manchester
Gypsum King
"
steel - lumber
Barry Dock
Hastings
"
none given
Belfast Dock
Iddesleigh
"
steel - lumber
Grangemouth
Listed in HX 294
Lord Byron
"
sugar
Clyde
Northumberland
"
frozen
Liverpool
Seapool
"
sugar
Dundee
Samsturdy
"
general
Cardiff
From HX 290
Empire Curzon
"
sugar
Liverpool / Belfast f. o.
Empire Razorbill
"
steel - lumber
Methil f. o. (London)
From HX 289
Empire Rival
"
sugar
Hull
Fort La Have
"
steel - timber
Manchester
Laguna
"
sugar
Liverpool
Martaban
"
sugar
London
San Casto
"
Adm.
Belfast f. o. (Dublin)
Empire Advocate
"
general
Methil f. o. (London)
Velox
Norwegian
bauxite
Garston
Maliakos
Greek
lumber
Ellesmere Port
From HX 288
Stirlingville
Norwegian
general
Manchester
Para
"
general - sugar
Greenock
Høyanger
"
general
Liverpool
Delftdijk
Dutch
general
Glasgow
Norfalk
Norwegian
sugar
London
Listed in HX 292
Villanger
"
general
Glasgow
Ovula
Dutch
Adm.
Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)
Heranger
Norwegian
general
Liverpool
O. B. Sørensen
"
none given
Clyde
Vav
"
none given
Clyde
Minerva
"
general
Glasgow
From HX 290
Salawati
Dutch
general
Liverpool / Glasgow
Wildwood
American
general
Manchester
Henry M. Robert
"
general
Liverpool
Alanson B. Houghton
"
general
Manchester
Richard S. Ewell
"
general
Hull
Howard T. Ricketts
"
general
Manchester
Edward A. Filene
"
general
Manchester
George Gershwin
"
general
Liverpool
David B. Henderson
"
general
Dundee
Ben A. Ruffin
"
general
Manchester
Kentuckian
"
general
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
James Schureman
"
general
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
Henry H. Richardson
"
general
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
William Sturgis
"
general
Cardiff
Simon Newcomb
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Listed in HX 292
Fort Orange
"
general
Belfast f. o.
Bering
"
general
Belfast f. o.
William Wilkins
"
general
Leith
John Drake Sloat
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Listed in HX 292
Charles J. Folger
"
general
Glasgow
John Gallup
"
general
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
James A. Wetmore
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Listed in HX 292
Robert W. Pomeroy
British(?)
general
Mersey f. o.
William James
American
general
Manchester
Isaac S. Hopkins
"
general
Mersey f. o.
Listed in HX 292
Nishmaha
"
general
Sunderland
Charles J. Finger
"
general
Londonderry / Liverpool
Henry Clay
"
general
Loch Ewe / Cardiff
James G. Birney
"
general
Barry Roads f. o.
Listed in HX 292
Sidney Lanier
"
general
Glasgow
Zane Grey
"
general
Manchester
Atlantic
Panamanian
general
Liverpool
Delnorte
American
general
Newport
James M. Wayne
"
general
Tyne
Harry A. Garfield
"
general
Tyne
Duncan U. Fletcher
"
general
Tyne
Francis E. Willard
"
general
Tyne
David Thompson
"
general
Liverpool / Glasgow
Alexander Ramsey
"
general
Liverpool
Empire Viscount
British
molasses
Humber (Saltend)
Marpessa
Dutch
Tanker B
London (Shellhaven)
Dettifoss
Icelandic
general - mail - passengers
Loch Ewe for Iceland
(See also RU 123)
R. Ney McNeely
American
general
Belfast f. o.
Joining from N. F.
Meanticut
American
general
Glasgow / Garston
From SC 157
West Nilus
"
general
Liverpool
From SC 157

Notes:
Commodore, Captain F. H. Taylor, R.N. was in Northumberland, Vice Commodore was Captain R. G. Bruusgaard, R. Nor. N. in Høyanger.

The Rescue Vessel Gothland was also with this convoy. She was on her 13th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde on Apr. 20-1944 with the westbound Covnoy ON 233, to Halifax May 6, then returned to Clyde with Convoy HX 291, May 12-May 26. ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).

Commodore's notes are not available - escorts not known.

All the Norwegian ships in this convoy are discussed on this website - use alphabet index below to find them.

Related external links:
Liberty Ships - The vast majority of the ships listed as American in the table above were Liberty ships. This website lists them alphabetically. (The Advance Sailing Telegrams do not always spell the names correctly, and I always check the spelling of each and every Liberty Ship against what is found on this site before I upload a convoy). As will be seen, some of the Liberty Ships sailing in Convoy HX 291 had just been delivered the previous month.
List of Liberty Ships by Hull No. - Includes info on the men and women for whom the ships were named (from Wikipedia).

Empire Ships - Also listed in alphabetical order. The site also has a section listing the "Sam"-ships, and other Liberty ships, some of which came under the British flag.

Eastbound N. Atlantic Convoys / 1944

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