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CONVOY SC 129
(Will be updated - please compare with A. Hague's listing for this convoy at ships in all SC convoys. See also SC escorts).

Convoy SC 129 Cruising Order
departed Halifax on May 2-1943 and arrived Liverpool on the 21st (Arnold Hague gives 24 ships)
Form received from Ted Agar. His source: A diary.

For info, some of the ships in this convoy are listed in the westbound Convoy ONS 11 in June-1943.

Further details have been added with the help of:
"The Allied Convoy System", Arnold Hague.
"Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague
"Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer
"The World's Merchant Fleets", R. W. Jordan

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Da=Danish, Sw=Swedish, Ice=Icelandic, Am=American, Gr=Greek, Fr=French, Pan=Panamanian.
Crossed out ships were cancelled.

MOWT=Ministry of War Transport, RV=Rescue Vessel, s=sunk, †=dead.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
Empire Boswell
(Br)
21
Umberleigh
(Br)
31
Masunda
(Br)
41
Blairesk
(Br)
51
Baltrover
(Br)
61
Ocean Viking
(Br)
71
Olivebank *
(Br)
81
New York City
(Br)
91
Westmoor
(Br)
12
Norfolk*
(Am)
22
Antigone
s - 3†
(Br)
32
Selfoss
(Ice)
42
Larranga
(Am)
52
Orville Harden
(Pa)
62
Vanja
(Norw)
72
Kolsnaren
(Sw)
82
Grey County
(Norw)
92
Kyklades
(Gr?)
13
23
Grado
s - 0†
Norw)
 33
Stanford
(Br)		 43
Felix Taussig
(Am)		 53 63
James Hawson
(Norw)		 73
Tombouctou
(Fr / MOWT 1940)		 83
Oakworth
(Br)		 93
14 24 34
Empire Melody
(Br)		 44
Taxiarchis
(Gr)		 54 64
Melrose Abbey
(Br)
RV		 74
Nordlys
(Da / MOWT 1940)		 84
Cetus
(Norw)		 94
* I believe this should be the Norwegian Norfalk.


Notes:
The Commodore was in Baltrover.

The 2 cancelled ships sailed in the next convoy, SC 130.

* Olivebank may have returned to port(?) - she's also listed in the next convoy.

Antigone, cargo of 7800 tons grain, general and MT, was sunk by U-402 on May 11-1943, 3 died, 43 survived. Melrose Abbey rescued 4 survivors from the water, 2 from a raft and 37 from a lifeboat.
Grado, 1000 tons steel and 3000 tons lumber, was also sunk by U-402 that day. 16 men were picked up from a lifeboat by Melrose Abbey, while escorts rescued the remaining 20. There were no casualties - see my page about Grado.

Melrose Abbey (requisitioned in Febr.-1941) was on her 7th voyage as rescue vessel, having started out at Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 176 on Apr. 1 (to Halifax Apr. 17), and returning from Halifax with SC 129 to Clyde, May 2–May 20-1943. Currie Line Ltd. also had a ship by this name.

Related External links:
Sinking of Antigone - Part of Uboat.net.com, which also has some details on the sinking of Grado.

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