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CONVOY SC 96
(Will be updated - please compare with A. Hague's listing for this convoy at ships in all SC convoys. See also SC escorts).

Departed Halifax on Aug. 11-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 27th
(Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 27 ships)

Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. ~~Crossed out~~ ships did not sail, underlined returned to port. MOWT = Ministry of War Transport.
Ship	Nationality	Cargo	Destination	Remarks
Peleus	Greek	grain	London	–
Selvik	Norwegian	lumber	Mersey	–
Glaisdale	British	general	Hull	From SC 95
~~Meline~~	Norwegian	Tanker B	Belfast f. o.	From SC 95 Listed in HX 203
Empire Liberty	British	phosphates	Glasgow	Commodore Vessel
~~Pacific~~	Swedish	general - 10 passengers	Cardiff	To SC 97 - did not sail To SC 98 - did not sail Listed in SC 99
Rinos	Greek	general	Hull	–
Opalia	British	Tanker W	Manchester	–
Roxby	"	general	Swansea (Southampton)	–
H. M. Flagler	Panamanian	Tanker B	Lamlash / Ardrossan	–
Lobos	British	tin - general	Liverpool	–
Don	Norwegian	flour	Port of Bristol	From SSC 95
Trompenberg	Dutch	lumber	Sharpness	–
Cities Service Koolmotor	American	Adm. tanker B	Londonderry	–
Hallfried	Norwegian	steel - timber	Newport	Returned to port (St. John's) Listed in WSC 98
Dunsley	British	steel - general	Belfast f. o.	Returned to Halifax (boiler repairs) Listed in SC 97
Daghild	Norwegian	Adm. tanker B	Scapa	–
From Sydney, C.B. - SSC 96 Sailed Aug. 12
Iron Baron	Norwegian	grain	London	From SSC 95
Borgholm	"	lumber	Great Yarmouth	–
Margarita Chandris	Greek	grain - trucks	Avonmouth	From SSC 95
Mimosa	"	lumber	Hull	–
Ramø	Norwegian	flour L/C	Leith	–
~~Akabahra~~	"	flour	Bristol	Listed in SC 97
Danby	British	grain - trucks	Hull	–
~~Kathariotisa~~	Greek	lumber	Methil d. g. test / London	Listed in SC 97
Lago	Norwegian	flour L/C	Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)	–
Lido	"	flour L/C	Liverpool	–
Forbin	French / MOWT 1940	general L/C	Hull	–
Gezina	Norwegian	lumber	Grimsby	–
Sälen	Swedish	general	Avonmouth	Joined from Halifax? (See notes in form below)
From Newfoundland - WSC 96 Sailed Aug. 15
~~Ruth I~~	Norwegian	newsprint	Belfast f. o.	From SC 95
~~Dago II~~	Latvian / MOWT 1940	lumber - pulp	Belfast Dock	To WSC 97 - did not sail Listed in WSC 98
Ilissos	Greek	iron ore	Cardiff	–
Marsa	British	iron ore	Middlesbrough	–
Snar	Norwegian	iron ore	Newport	–

Cruising Order - Halifax ships only Received from Ted Agar, England. His source: Halifax diary.
A couple of years ago, Ted Agar sent me 2 forms re. Convoy SC 96. At the time, it was believed that the ships in the second form below were part of this convoy, but as can be seen they are not mentioned in the Advance Sailing Telegram. This first form had a notation attached (written by the author of the diary, on which the information is based) saying the following "An earlier convoy sailed today as follows:"... then these ships were named. As can be seen, some (but not all) of these correspond to what can be found in the Advance Sailing Telegram, but at the time when Ted sent them to me, he thought perhaps they belonged to a southbound convoy, and not to SC 96. However, it now looks like they did indeed sail with SC 96, while the ships in the 2nd form did not. In fact, the latter group left port that day in order to join Convoy HS 40 for Sydney, C.B. (external link). The Norwegian Garnes is also included in that convoy. This form shows the Halifax ships only, Sydney, C.B. and Newfoundland portions are not included. Peleus and Hallfried are not mentioned and, therefore, station numbers are not known (or perhaps Abelous is a mis-spelling of Peleus, and Shalind a misinterpretation of the name Hallfried?). These stations would have been the pendants flown on departure Halifax, and stations may have changed as the voyage progressed.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
11 Rinos	21 Daghild	31 Cities Service Fuel* (Am)	41 Opalia	51 Empire Liberty	61 Lobos	71 Dunsley	81 ~~Pacific~~	91 Trompenberg
12 Garnes* (Norw)	22 Selvik	32 Abelous (? see note above)	42 H. M. Flagler	52 Glaisdale	62 Roxby	72 Shalind (? see note above)	82 Don	92
13	23	33 Moyra** (Br)	43 Sälen	53	63	73	83	93
* The AST lists a Cities Service Koolmotor, but no Cities Service Fuel. * As mentioned, Garnes left port that day in order to join Convoy HS 40, not SC 96. ** Moyra is not included in the Advance Sailing Telegram for SC 96. The fact that Sälen is included on this form, indicates that she joined from Halifax, and not from Sydney C.B. (Note that Sälen is listed as Mälaren - her previous name - in some earlier convoys on this website)

Notes:
Commodore was in Empire Liberty.

Dunsley returned to port the following day (Aug. 12) and subesequently joined SC 97.

According to the Halifax diary, there was also a ship named Ashby that went out with the above ships - no pendant number is given.

The first ship to leave, Empire Liberty, had gone out at 11:30 that morning, and the last to leave at 14:00 was Sälen - no times are given for the other ships.

Second form from T. Agar
Again, none of these ships are included in the Advance Sailing Telegram for SC 96, but as already mentioned in my text for the form above, they left port that day in order to join Convoy HS 40 for Sydney, C.B. (external link), that is, all except Canatco. Several of them later joined Convoy SC 98, some are listed in SC 99.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
11 Empire Eve (Br)	21 Point San Pedro (Am)	31 Timok (Yug)	41 Cantal (Fr / MOWT 1941)	51 Tennessee (Br *)	61 Fairfax (Am)	71 Ellenor (Am)
12 Ragnhild ** (Da / Br)	22 Kirsten B (Norw)	32 Euthalia (Gr)	42 Canatco (Ca)	52 Sarnolite (Ca)	62 Aeas (Gr)	72 Argolikos (Gr)
13 Bollsta (Norw)	23 Evelyn B (Br)	33 Aikaterini T (Gr)	43 Ledaal (Norw)	53 Nadin (Gr)	63 Selvistan (Br)	73 Narocz (Po)

Notes for the above form:
* Tennessee is listed as Norwegian, but this ship could not have been in this convoy because she was lost in 1940. However, there was a Danish ship by this name which was taken over by MOWT in June-1940, torpedoed and sunk in Sept.-1942, having straggled from Convoy SC 100, which left Halifax on Sept. 12.

** Ragnhild is listed as a British freighter, formerly Danish, but I can't quite get this to fit. According to R. W. Jordan's "The World's Merchat Fleets 1939" the Danish Ragnhild became Panamanian Leonatus in 1941. There was a Norwegian Ragnhild (ex Empire Carey), but there's some confusion as to when this ship was completed and taken over by Nortraship, as will be seen when clicking on the link to my page about Ragnhild. This ship is listed in Convoy SC 98, leaving Halifax on Aug. 29.

The ships went out in the following order:
The first to leave at 14:10 was Ellenor, followed at 16:30 by Cantal, then with a few minutes between each ship, Fairfax, Timok, Kirsten B, Evelyn B, Narocz, Sarnolite, Argolikos, Empire Eve (Catapult freighter), Aeas, Point San Pedro, Bollsta, Ledaal, Canatco, Aikaterini T, Ragnhild, Tennessee, Selvistan, Euthalia, and Nadin as the last ship at 17:51.

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