Transcribed from several 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.

Crossed out ships did not sail.

MoWT = Ministry of War Transport

For info, some of the ships in this convoy are also listed as going int he other direction in Convoy OB 244 in Nov.-1940.

Notes:
Commodore was in Baron Elgin, Vice Commodore in Hartington.

The nationality for Orania is given as Swedish, but tonnage is given as 1182 gt, which was the Norwegian ship by this name (besides, the Swedish Orania had already been sunk - see this external page).

The convoy arrived rendezvous on Oct. 1.

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):
Arrow - From 30/09/40 to 03/10/40
Bluebell - From 01/10/40 to 02/10/40
Ellesmere - From 01/10/40 to 03/10/40
Folkestone - From 19/09/40 to 04/10/40
Keppel - From 01/10/40 to 03/10/40
Lynx - From 19/09/40 to 19/09/40
Rochester - From 01/10/40 to 02/10/40
Ullswater - From 01/10/40 to 03/10/40
Vanquisher - From 30/09/40 to 04/10/40

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