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CONVOY SC 25
Departed Halifax on March 10-1941 and arrived Liverpool on the 29th.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 32 ships in this convoy.

Transcribed from original documents received from Tony Cooper (Advance Sailing Telegram) - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. The station numbers and names of escorts have been extracted from documents recived from Don Kindell, based on Arnold Hague's database - see ships in all SC convoys. Further details have been added with the help of: "Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer "The World's Merchant Fleets 1939", R. W. Jordan "Lloyd's War Losses", Vol. II. ~~Crossed out~~ ships did not sail, underlined returned to port (except those that are linked, which will automatically be underlined. The Norwegian Gezina and Havtor, however, did return). MoWT = Ministry of War Transport
Ship	Nationality	Cargo	Station	Destination	Remarks
~~Empire Scout~~	British	bauxite	–	London	Listed in SC 27
~~Tenax~~	"	grain	–	Ipswich	Listed in SC 26
Caithness	"	wheat	91	Avonmouth	From HX 113
Dunelmia	"	grain	71	Avonmouth	–
Don	Norwegian	lumber	13	London	From SC 24
~~Helle~~	"	steel - pulp	–	London	Listed in SC 26 (sunk - follow link to Helle)
Nicolaos Piangos	Greek	grain	72	Avonmouth	From SC 24
Pegasus	"	wheat	92	Avonmouth	From HX 113
Stad Maassluis	Dutch	scrap iron - pit props	12	River Mersey	From HX 113
Fanø	Danish / MoWT 1940	pit props	81	Glasgow	From SC 24
Bonde	Norwegian	grain	44	Ipswich	From HX 112
Boltonhall	British	grain	11	London	–
~~Editor~~	American / MoWT 1941	steel - scrap iron - special	–	Liverpool	(Renamed Empire Dunlin - later Norw. Norlom) From SC 23 Listed in SC 26
Nicolas	Greek	phosphates	83	Glasgow	From SC 23
Veni	Norwegian	lumber	22	Grangemouth	–
Zurichmoor	British	grain	61	Manchester	From SC 24
Filleigh	"	wheat	31	Hull	From HX 113
Koranton	"	pig iron	54	Hull	Sunk - See Notes
Ramillies	"	grain	21	Tyne	–
Eskdalegate	"	nitrates	41	Leith	–
Pagasitikos	Greek	steel - scrap iron	93	Belfast d. g. / Garston	From SC 23
Gezina	Norwegian	lumber	74	Great Yarmouth	Returned to Halifax Listed in SC 28
Havtor	"	pit props	94	Belfast d. g. / Barry Docks	From SC 24 Returned to Halifax (unable to maintain speed) Listed in SC 26
Hindsholm	Danish (MoWT 1940?)	lumber	32	W. Hartlepool	–
Ashby	British	wheat	42	London	From HX 113
Iron Baron	Norwegian	pit props	82	Cardiff	–
Mariston	British	phosphates - TNT	52	Tees	–
~~Anacortes~~	American / MoWT 1940	steel - scrap iron	–	Swansea	(Renamed Empire Mallard 1941) Anacortes is listed in SC 26
Bjørkhaug	Norwegian	paper - wet pulp	34	Ridham Dock	–
Marionga D. Thermiotis	Greek	lumber	63	Manchester	–
Leka	Norwegian	timber	14	Great Yarmouth	–
Dartford	British	grain	84	Avonmouth	–
Borgholm	Norwegian	lumber	33	Hull	–
~~Westport~~	American / MoWT 1940 (1941?)	scrap iron -steel	–	Middlesbrough	Renamed Empire Nightingale Shows up again in SC 30 but did not sail Joined SC 31, straggled and joined HX 126
Grelhead	British	grain	62	Liverpool	–
~~Frances Dawson~~	"	grain	–	Ipswich	See Notes
~~Ethel Radcliffe~~	"	grain	–	London	Listed in SC 26
Knud	Danish (MoWT 1940)	lumber	43	W. Hartlepool	–
Profit	Norwegian	lumber	45	London	From SC 24
Barrdale	British	wheat	51	Liverpool	From HX 114
Parthenon	Greek	sulphur	53	Garston	–
Empire Caribou	British	steel	73	London	–
Note also that some of the ships from Convoy HX 114 are said to have sailed with SC 25 for a while. They were: The British Comanchee and Roxby, and the Norwegian Inger Lise and Velox. A. Hague has also included the Greek Nestos in SC 25 - cargo of sulphur (again, see Hague's listing for SC 25 at ships in all SC convoys). This ship is also listed in Convoy HX 114, but there's no mention in the documents for that convoy that she was among those said to have joined SC 25. According to R. W. Jordan's "The World's Merchant Fleets 1939", Nestos ran aground at Hoyle Bank on Apr. 2, total loss.

Notes:
Commodore was in Barrdale, Vice Commodore in Filleigh.
Milford Commodore in Zurichmoor.
Barry Commodore in Fanø.

Frances Dawson is said to have been on fire in Halifax on March 8-1941 (2 days before Convoy SC 25 left), becoming a total constructive loss. However, she was taken over by MoWT 1941 and renamed Empire Tyne - see the website about the Empire Ships that I've linked to below.

Koranton, on a voyage from Philadelphia (Sept. 8-1940?) for Hull with 8769 tons of pig iron, became a straggler and was torpedoed and sunk by U-98 on March 27. She had a crew of 34 and 2 gunners, all of whom perished.

The convoy arrived rendezvous on March 25.

Escorts (extracted from this list of SC convoy escorts, based on Arnold Hague's database, received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year):
Chesterfield - From 26/03/41 to 29/03/41
Garland - From 26/03/41 to 29/03/41
Heather - From 26/03/41 to 29/03/41
Hepatica - From 26/03/41 to 29/03/41
Laconia - From 10/03/41 to 24/03/41
Ottawa - From 26/03/41 to 29/03/41
Picotee - From 26/03/41 to 29/03/41
Thunderbolt - From 10/03/41 to 15/03/41
Weston - From 26/03/41 to 29/03/41

Related external links:
The loss of Koranton

The Empire Ships - Provides more information on all the Empire Ships listed in this convoy, including Frances Dawson / Empire Tyne, which can be found at the end of this page.

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