Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper (Advance Sailing Telegram) - 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.

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 339 at Ships in all HX convoys.

See also westbound convoys from the same time period, for instance ON 277 and ON 278

Notes:
Commodore, Captain Sir A. J. Baxter, R.N.R. was in Mataroa. According to A. Hague, Vice Commodore was the captain of Samdel.

Commodore's notes are not available.

The Rescue Vessel Aboyne was on her 10th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 281 on Jan. 27-1945, to Halifax Febr. 11 - returning with Convoy HX 339 from Halifax on Febr. 20, to Clyde March 3. ("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):
Arnprior - From 23/02/45 to 03/03/45
Balsam - From 01/03/45 to 03/03/45
Bligh
Chambly - From 23/02/45 to 03/03/45
Cosby - From 01/03/45 to 03/03/45
Dominica
Fennel - From 23/02/45 to 03/03/45
Grindall
Hallowell - From 23/02/45 to 03/03/45
Hepatica - From 20/02/45 to 23/02/45
Keats
Kempthorne
Labuan
Loch Fada
Loch Ruthven
Oakville - From 18/02/45 to 21/02/45
Orangeville - From 23/02/45 to 03/03/45
Oshawa - From 18/02/45 to 21/02/45
Rockcliffe - From 18/02/45 to 21/02/45
Royal Mount - From 23/02/45 to 03/03/45
Saskatoon - From 18/02/45 to 21/02/45
Sorel - From 20/02/45 to 23/02/45
St. Boniface - From 20/02/45 to 23/02/45
Sunflower - From 01/03/45 to 03/03/45
Tobago
Trail - From 20/02/45 to 23/02/45
Tyler
Wild Goose

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 - 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). A few of them had just been delivered in Jan.-1945. 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.
The 2 websites below have been used for the same purpose.
Fort (+ Ocean & Park) ships
The Empire Ships website also lists "Sam"-ships and other Liberty ships.

See also:
List of Liberty Ships - Includes info on some of the men and women for whom the ships were named (from Wikipedia).

RA Convoys - Here is A. Hague's listing for RA 66. Also available via Russian Convoys.

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Will be added: HX 340 through HX 358