Transcribed from several documents received from Roger Griffiths - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.
Details re. JW 60 etc. convoys were found in "Convoys to Russia 1941-1945" by Bob Ruegg and Arnold Hague.

Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined ships returned to port.
A 1 form is not available to me and, therefore, I don't know the station numbers for these ships.

Notes:
Commodore Rear Admiral C. N. Reyne was in Norwegian Reinholt, Vice Commodore was W. C. Meek R.N.R. in Norwegian Samuel Bakke. Commodore's notes are not available.

*Rescue Vessel Dewsbury was on her 15th voyage as such, having started this voyage at Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 243 on July 3-1944, to Halifax July 16 - returning with HX 301 from Halifax July 27, to Clyde Aug. 8. ("Convoy Rescue Ships", Arnold Hague).

I have received an E-mail from Morley Eldridge, telling me that his mother, Ros Eldridge (now 86) returned to England in July-1944 to rejoin her RAF husband, Fl. Lieut. George R. Eldridge, who had been posted back to England some time before. She was on board the Dutch Curacao (Captain Meynderts), which joined the convoy from Sidney, having started out in Montreal. The ship also had several other service wives on board as passengers. Morley Eldridge says "The captain told the passengers after sailing that they would awake to a sight of more ships than anyone had ever seen before. No one took him seriously and assumed that it was a made-up story for security reasons. In the morning, though, there were ships as far as the eye could see in most directions. There was an aircraft carrier on their left with sailors playing hockey, and who sent up a plane to reconnoitre once they saw there were a number of young women on the Curacao! They dropped a large bouquet of vegetables as a present, but it missed the ship and was seen floating as they passed it".

It was at first believed that Curacao had been in HX 300 for this voyage - ref. this thread on my Ship Forum - but it was later determined it was HX 301, and as can be seen from the above table, I have since received information to confirm this. (See also this Curacao related posting). Curacao later returned to the U.S. on Aug. 25 with the westbound Convoy ON 250.

More information on all the Norwegian ships in this convoy can be found with the help of the alphabet index below, or use the Ship Index to find them.

Names of escorts are not available.

Related external links:
Liberty Ships - This website has been used to check the spelling of all the Liberty ships listed in this convoy (convoy docs don't always have the correct spelling, or they may be difficult to decipher). The 2 websites below have been used for the same purpose.
List of Liberty Ships by Hull No. - Includes info on the men for whom the ships were named (from Wikipedia).

Fort (+ Ocean & Park) ships
Empire ships - The site also lists "Sam"-ships and other Liberty ships.

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