Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper (Advance Sailing Telegram) - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.

The station numbers and cargoes for the tankers have been extracted from a document received from D. Kindell, based on the late Arnold Hague's database - see his listing for Convoy HX 333 at Ships in all HX convoys.

See also westbound Convoy ON 270.

Crossed out ships did not sail.

Notes:
Commodore Captain G. N. Jones, R.N.R. was in Port Darwin.
According to A. Hague, Vice Commodore was the captain of Greystoke Castle.

Commodore's notes are not available.

The Rescue Vessel Copeland was on her 33rd voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 275 on Dec. 29-1944, to Halifax Jan. 11-1945 - returning with Convoy HX 333 from Halifax on Jan. 20-1945, to Clyde Febr. 2. Her previous voyage had been with Convoy ON 264 / HX 323. ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).

A. Hague names the following escorts (extracted from this list of HX convoy escorts received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year):
Ascension
Bazeley
Beauharnois - From 23/01/45 to 01/02/45
Bentinck
Bowmanville - From 23/01/45 to 01/02/45
Burges
Calder
Calgary - From 29/01/45 to 03/02/45
Cobalt - From 18/01/45 to 21/01/45
Drury
Galt - From 18/01/45 to 21/01/45
Glace Bay - From 23/01/45 to 01/02/45
Hepatica - From 20/01/45 to 23/01/45
Lethbridge - From 18/01/45 to 21/01/45
Loch Killin
Loch Lomond
Matapedia - From 20/01/45 to 23/01/45
Moorsom
Narcissus - From 29/01/45 to 03/03/45
Pasley
Petrolia - From 23/01/45 to 01/02/45
Pictou - From 18/01/45 to 21/01/45
Trail - From 20/01/45 to 23/01/45
Ulster Queen - From 01/02/45 to 01/02/45
Volunteer - From 29/01/45 to 03/02/45
Wentworth - From 23/01/45 to 01/02/45
Whitby - From 23/01/45 to 01/02/45
Winnipeg - From 18/01/45 to 21/01/45

Related external links:
Eastbound convoys 1944 & 1945 - This page shows all the other eastbound convoys sailing in 1944 and 1945 in chronological order.

Liberty Ships - Most of the ships listed as American in the table above were Liberty ships. This website listed them alphabetically (included "Sam" ships). Unfortunately, the list no longer appears to be included at this site (unfortunate, because I have 100's of links to it from my website). If I remember correctly, that particular section was hosted by Peter Thompson, who has now moved to a different site, but I cannot find his list of Liberty Ships. I'll leave the link up for now until I can find out whether it's still available somewhere. I did find an identical page here, but as will be seen, the alphabetical links receive an error.

List of Liberty Ships by Hull No. - Includes info on the men for whom the ships were named (from Wikipedia).

Project Liberty Ship has more info on John W. Brown. The site also has some useful links.

The Empire Ships website has a section listing the "Sam"-ships, and other Liberty ships.

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