Transcribed from several documents received from Roger Griffiths - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.

Details re. Arctic 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 Vice Admiral F. A. Marten was in Mataroa, Vice Commodore was M. J. D. Mayall R.N.R. in Samdee. Commodore's notes are not available.

From Charles Stobbard I've received the following re the M.A.C. ships (some of which are listed in the above table):
"You mention ships named ACAVUS, RAPANA, AMASTRA in some of your convoys on your Web pages. As you rightly say they were carryying aircraft. These ships were actually tankers of 12000 tons, and during 1943 were converted into MAC ships. These were Merchant Aircaft Carriers, and in addition to their normal cargoes, carried 3 swordfish aircraft on their flight deck. They carried a normal Merchant Navy crew with a Merchant Navy captain in command, but in addition carried a Royal Navy flight and servicing crew for the aircraft.

There were nine Anglo Saxon tankers converted. ACAVUS (MAC1), ADULA (MAC2), ALEXIA (MAC3), AMASTRA (MAC4), ANCYLUS (MAC5), GADILA (MAC6) Dutch, MACOMA (MAC7) Dutch, MIRALDA (MAC8), RAPANA (MAC9), in addition the following 4 ships were also MAC ships, purpose built and converted to tankers after the war. Empire MacMahon, Empire MacKay, Empire MacColl, Empire MacCabe. Incidently the Gadila and Macoma were the first Dutch Aircraft carriers".

The Rescue Vessel Melrose Abbey was on her 15th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 244 on July 10-1944, to Halifax July 21 - returning with HX 302 from Halifax on Aug. 5, to Clyde Aug. 16 ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).

Please note that more information on all the Norwegian ships listed in this convoy can be found with the help of the index below.

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.
Fort (+ Ocean & Park) ships
Empire ships - The site also has a section listing the "Sam"-ships, and other Liberty ships that came under the British flag.

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