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CONVOY SC 125
(Will be updated - please compare with A. Hague's listing for this convoy at ships in all SC convoys. See also SC escorts).
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Departed Halifax on March 31-1943 and arrived Liverpool on Apr. 15 (Arnold Hague gives 34 ships) |
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| Form received from Ted Agar, based on a diary.
Br=British, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Gr=Greek, Am=American, Pan=Panamanian. |
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11
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11
unnamed |
21
Caithness (Br) |
31
Sapelo (Am) |
41
unnamed |
51
freighter (Br) |
61
Empire Flame (Br) |
71
City of Hereford (Br) |
81
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91
Lodestone (Br) |
101 freighter (catapult) |
111 Empire Cabot (Br) |
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12
unnamed |
22
Novasli (Norw) |
32
unnamed |
42
unnamed |
52
unnamed |
62
British Lady (Br) |
72
Celtic Monarch (Br) |
82
Campfire (Am) |
92
Souliotis (Gr) |
102 freighter (Br) |
112 freighter Du) |
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13
LST 321* |
23
Coulbeg (Br) |
33 unnamed |
43 freighter (Br) |
53 unnamed |
63 Gulhaug* (Norw) |
73 Ingleton (Br) |
83 Gold Shell (Br) |
93 White Clover (Pa) |
103 freighter (Du) |
113 |
| 14 | 24 LST 406 |
34 Picotee* (Br) |
44 Katingo Hadjipatera (Gr) |
54 freighter (Gr) |
64 William Penn (Am) |
74 Gothland (Br) RV |
84 Margalau (Br) |
94 freighter (Gr) |
104 LST 336 |
114 |
According to A. Hague the above unnamed ships were: In station 11 - British Dalcross In station 12 - Norwegian Brush In station 32 - British Empire Summer In station 33 - Norwegian Carmelfjell (to St. John's, N.F. w/engine defects) In station 41 - British Empire Activity In station 42 - Yugoslavian Timok In station 43 - British Baron Scott In staion 51 - British Baron Cawdor In station 52 - British (ex Da) Gunvor Mærsk In station 53 - Norwegian Norjerv In station 54 - Greek Agia Marina In station 94 - Greek Euthalia In statin 101 - British Empire Eve In station 102 - British Empire Porpoise (returned to port, joined next convoy) In station 103 - Dutch Randfontein In station 112 - Dutch Bonaire *He has not included LST 321 and Picotee in this convoy; in fact, Picotee shows up again in SC 127 (he has LST 319 in station 34). Instead of the Norwegian Gulhaug in station 63, he has the American Gulfhawk, and instead of LST 336 in station 104 he has LST 366. Campfire is said to have returned to port, joined SC 126. Additionally, it looks like the Panamanian Michigan and the Swedish Pacific were to join from St. John's but returned to port, later joining SC 126. |
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The ships left Halifax in the following order: The first to go out was White Clover (went ahead of convoy for gun trials), followed by Empire Flame (Catapult freighter), Sapelo, the 6 unnamed ships in stations 11, 41, 12, 33, 52 and 42 (in other words, Dalcross, Empire Activity, Brush, Carmelfjell, Gunvor Mærsk, and Timok), then 2 unnamed British freighters (43 and 51 - Baron Scott and Baron Cawdor, as per A. Hague), the Greek freighter in station 94 (Euthalia), the unnamed ships in 53 and 32 (Norjerv and Empire Summer), the Greek ship in 54 (Agia Marina), followed by Gulhaug (which according to A. Hague was not Gulhaug but the American Gulfhawk), Caithness, Celtic Monarch, Dutch freighter (112/Bonaire), Ingleton, British freighter (102, Empire Porpoise/returned), Novasli, Gold Shell, Lodestone, Dutch freighter (103, Randfontein), Empire Cabot, British Lady, Coulbeg, Katingo Hadjipatera, Souliotis, City of Hereford, William Penn, Gothland, Margalau, Campfire, LST 336 (LST 366?), LST 406, LST 321 (LST 319?), the catapult freighter in 101 (Empire Eve) and Picotee (as already mentioned, this ship probably did not sail; she's also listed in SC 127) Gothland (requisitioned in Nov.-1941) was on her 7th voyage as rescue vessel, having started this voyage from Clyde with the westbound convoy ON 169 on Febr. 22 (to St. John's March 13, after having encountered a survivor on a raft from the American Wade Hampton which had been torpedoed in Convoy HX 227) - then sailed in Convoy JH 42 from St. John's N.F. to Halifax March 15-18 (carrying 64 survivor passengers that had been landed in Newfoundland), and subsequently returned to the UK with SC 125 from Halifax March 31 to Clyde Apr. 14. ("Convoy Rescue Ships", Arnold Hague). To the next SC convoy in my list SC 126 |
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