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CONVOY SC 61
Departed Sydney, C.B. on Dec. 21-1941 and arrived Liverpool on Jan 7-1942.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 16 ships in this convoy.
Transcribed from original documents received from Tony Cooper (Advance Sailing Telegram) - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. See also Convoy ON 35, and other ON convoys from the same time period.
MoWT=Ministry of War Transport. |
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Ship
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Nationality
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Cargo
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Station
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Destination
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Remarks
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Ampetco
|
Belgian
|
Tanker B
(crude oil) |
42
|
London (Shellhaven)
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From SC 60
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Roumanie
|
"
|
general
|
33
|
London
|
From SC 60
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Parklaan
|
Dutch
|
wheat
|
22
|
Hull
|
From SC 60
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New Westminster City
|
British
|
general
|
21
|
Hull
|
From SC 60
(Later in PQ 13) |
Winsum
|
Dutch
|
sugar
|
44
|
Greenock
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Empire Franklin
|
British
|
wheat
|
11
|
Mersey
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Llanberis
|
"
|
iron ore
|
32
|
Middlesbrough
|
From SC 60
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Morska Wola
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Polish
|
general ev.
|
43
|
Manchester
|
From SC 60
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Framlington Court
|
British
|
steel - general
|
41
|
London
|
From SC 60
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Charlton Hall
|
"
|
sugar - scrap
|
31
|
Dundee
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Norwegian
|
sugar - copper
|
53
|
Clyde
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From SC 60
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|
"
|
grain
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Ipswich
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"
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flour
|
34
|
London
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From SC 60
|
|
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British
|
general
|
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Liverpool
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From SC 60
Listed in SC 62 |
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"
|
general
|
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Glasgow
|
From SC 60
Listed in SC 62 |
Bur
|
Swedish
|
none given
(A. Hague says woodpulp) |
62
|
Manchester
|
|
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Greek
|
grain
|
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Hull
|
|
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American
|
general
|
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Archangel
|
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Empire Lotus
|
British
|
sugar
|
61
|
Mersey
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|
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Panamanian
|
general
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Reykjavik
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Listed in SC 62
|
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Dutch
|
steel - general
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Avonmouth
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Listed in SC 62
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British
|
grain - general
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Avonmouth
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Listed in SC 62
|
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Belgian
|
sulphur
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Garston
|
|
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Danish / MoWT 1940
|
lumber
|
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London
|
To SC 62 - did not sail
Listed in SC 63 |
Peterston
|
British
|
general
|
51
|
Holyhead / Manchester
|
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Rudby
|
"
|
general
|
23
|
London
|
|
|
"
|
Tanker B
|
|
Clyde
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Listed in SC 62
|
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Yugoslavian
|
general
|
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Liverpool
|
Listed in SC 62
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British
|
manganese ore
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Middlesbrough
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Listed in SC 62
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Norwegian
|
Adm. tanker B
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Clyde
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Swedish
|
general
|
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Hull
|
|
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British
|
grain
|
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Hull
|
Listed in SC 62
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|
"
|
grain
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Liverpool
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Norwegian
|
Adm. tanker B
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Clyde
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From HX 165
Listed in HX 168 |
|
"
|
general - lumber
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Iceland
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Listed in SC 62
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British
|
general
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Cardiff
|
From SC 59
Listed in SC 62 |
Norwegian
|
general
|
52
|
Cardiff
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Additionally, according to A. Hague, the British Empire Foam, which had initially been in Convoy HX 166, became a straggler from that convoy and later joined SC 61. |
The convoy arrived rendezvous on Jan. 2-1942. A. Hague names the following escorts (extracted from this list of SC convoy escorts, received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year): To the next SC convoy in my list SC 62 |
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