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CONVOY SC 132
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departed Halifax on May 26-1943 and arrived Liverpool on June 11 (Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 44 ships) |
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| Received from Ted Agar (His source: A diary).
Cargoes have been extracted from a document received from D. Kindell, based on Arnold Hague's database. See his listing for SC 132 at Ships in all SC convoys. Underlined ships returned to port, except those that are linked, which will automatically be underlined. The Norwegian Estrella, however, did return. For info, some of the ships in this convoy are listed in the westbound Convoy ONS 11 in June-1943. Br=British, Du=Dutch, Norw=Norwegian, Sw=Swedish, Gr=Greek, Pol=Polish, Est=Estonian, Am=American, Fr=French. |
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Radport steel - cotton (Br) |
21
Dahomian general - explosives (Br) |
31
Botlea steel - tobacco (Br) |
41
Clan Macinnes general - explosives (Br) See Notes below |
51
Gloxina lub. oil 1 passenger (Br) |
61
Ribera grain - MT (Br) See Notes below |
71
Reaveley grain (Br) |
81
Forresbank general - steel (Br) |
91
Wanderer general - steel (Br) |
101 Empire Launcelot sugar (Br) |
111 Fort la Traite wheat - 237 mails 2 passengers (Br) See Notes below |
121 Harpefjell general (Norw) |
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22
Empire Gannet general - explosives (Br) |
32
Hilversum sugar (Du) |
42
British Progress vap. oil (Br) |
52
British Freedom aviation gas - FFO Escort Oiler 60 DC's (Br) |
62
Athelprince FFO Escort Oiler 35 spare DC's (Br) |
82
Marymar general (Am) |
92
Hollywood general 5 passengers (Am) See Notes below |
102 Gold Shell petrol (Br) |
112 Katendrecht aviation gas (Du) See Notes below |
122 Norvarg steel - general (Norw) |
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Alden Gifford steel - lumber (Br) See Notes below |
33 West Nilus general (Am) |
43 Solsten petrol (Norw) |
53 L. V. Stanford petrol - oil - MT (Am) |
63 Gulfhawk USN fuel (Am) |
73 | 83 Petter II USN fuel (Norw) |
93 Gausdal general - explosives (Norw) |
103 Robin Gray general - explosives (Am) See Notes below |
113 Ragnhildsholm general (Sw) |
123 Thraki grain - AFV's (Gr) |
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| 14 | 24 Stamos grain - AFV's (Gr) See Notes below |
34 (Du) See Notes below |
44 (Du) See Notes below Flimston |
54 Samuel L. Fuller fuel oil (Am) |
64 Sneland I wood pulp (Norw) |
74 | 84 Morska Wola general - explosives (Pol) |
94 Estrella general - MT (Norw) See Notes below |
104 Fort Binger sugar (Fr) |
114 Para general (Norw) |
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| 15 | 25 | 3 | 45 | 55 | 65 Keila steel - lumber 1 passenger (Est) |
75 | 85 Rathlin (Br) RV See Notes below |
95 | 105 | 115 | 125 |
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There's a note in the document for Convoy HX 241 in connection with Jean L-D and Fort Remy saying they both joined SC 132, having become stragglers from the HX convoy. As can be seen, these ships are not mentioned in the diary, but the ships shown in this table are those leaving from Halifax only; the two HX 241 stragglers joined later. According to A. Hague, LST 13 was also in this convoy; again, see his listing for SC 132 at Ships in all SC convoys. Note, however, that he has also included this ship in the previous convoy, SC 131. Aditionally, he has the British Tamaha in station 34, cargo of fuel oil - not mentioned in the diary, probably because she joined from St. John's (see also SC 130). He says Fort Binger and Keila were British, and lists the ship in station 51 as Gloxinia, adding she struck an iceberg on this passage. Empire Launcelot became the Belgian Belgian Trader in 1943 |
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Notes: The cancelled Jobshaven sailed in the next convoy, while Lekhaven is listed in SC 134. Alden Gifford, Stamos and Estrella had been cancelled from the previous convoy, SC 131. Estrella is also mentioned in Convoy SC 130, and shows up again in SC 134, which left Halifax on June 16. According to A. Hague, she was involved in a collision when in SC 132 and returned to port. She may have collided with the Dutch Katendrecht, which is also said to have returned after a collision; also listed in SC 134. Additionally, Clan Mcinnes was involved in a collision; this took place in the Clyde Estuary. It looks like Fort La Traite had been cancelled from the fast convoy HX 240 leaving New York on May 19-1943. Hollywood and Ribera had also been scheduled for that convoy, while Glarona and Robin Gray had been cancelled from an earlier convoy, HX 239. Rathlin (requisitioned July 28-1941) was on her 12th voyage as rescue vessel, having started out at Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 181 on Apr. 30 (to Halifax May 15), returning with Convoy SC 132 from Halifax on May 26, to Clyde June 11-1943. ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague). A. Hague names the following escorts (extracted from this list of SC convoy escorts, also received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year): To the next SC convoy in my list SC 133 |
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