Transcribed from original documents received from Tony Cooper, England (Advance Sailing Telegram) - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.
Station numbers were provided by Ted Agar, England (his source: A diary). The stations given are the intitial stations on departure; these may have changed as the voyage progressed.
Names of escorts have been extracted from a document recived from Don Kindell, based on the late Arnold Hague's database - see also his listing for SC 78 at ships in all SC convoys.

Additional details have been added with the help of:
"Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two", Jürgen Rohwer
"Lloyd's War Losses", Vol I.
"The World's Merchant Fleets 1939", R. W. Jordan
"Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague.

Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined returned to port, except those that are linked, which will automatically be underlined.

MoWT = Ministry of War Transport

Also in this convoy for a while, sailing in station 43, was the Rescue Vessel Stockport (requisitioned on July 8-1941, entered service in Dec. following conversion). She was on her 4th voyage as such, having started this voyage with the westbound Convoy ON 76 from Clyde to Halifax March 16-March 31, joining SC 78 at Halifax Apr. 5, put into St. John's Apr. 13, then left that same day to join Convoy SC 79 Apr. 15.

San Gerardo, on a voyage from Curacao for Clyde via Halifax with 17 000 tons of fuel oil, had been torpedoed and sunk on March 31 by U-71, 700 miles from Cape Hatteras. She had a crew of 52 and 5 gunners - 49 crew and 2 gunners perished.

Eastmoor, on a voyage from Savannah for Liverpool via Halifax with 7500 tons of general cargo, had been torpedoed and sunk on Apr. 1 (German time) by U-71. She had a crew of 42 and 10 gunners, 13 crew and 3 gunners were lost.

Ref. external links provided below for more on these attacks.

The ships left port in the following order (according to the diary):
The first ship to leave at 10:50 was Manchester Spinner, followed at 11:13 by Amakura and with a few minutes between each ship the following went out:
Empire Carey, Empire Sunrise (bags of produce on foredeck, tanks on afterdeck), Montreal City, Sheaf Crown, Empire Marlowe (airplane crates and tanks), Sonja Mærsk (star placed on stack), Andreas (B on stack painted out), Kelbergen, Llancarvan, Kelvinbank, Michael L. Embiricos (blue E on black stack), Zagloba, Stockport (AHL on stack), Cetus, Badjestan, Mount Pera, Fort Townshend (troops, cars, trucks), and the last ship to go out at 13:48 was Belle Isle. (Iroquois is not mentioned).

The convoy arrived rendezvous on Apr. 17.

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):
Buctouche - From 09/04/42 to 09/04/42
Cobalt - From 09/04/42 to 21/04/42
Dunvegan - From 09/04/42 to 21/04/42
Napanee - From 09/04/42 to 21/04/42
Restigouche - From 09/04/42 to 21/04/42
Roxborough - From 05/04/42 to 09/04/42
St. Francis - From 09/04/42 to 16/04/42
Sudbury - From 05/04/42 to 09/04/42
Summerside - From 05/04/42 to 09/04/42
Wanderer - From 05/04/42 to 09/04/42

Related external links:
Theattack on San Gerardo
The attack on Eastmoor

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