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CONVOY SC 24
Departed Halifax on Febr. 28-1941 and arrived Liverpool on March 19.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 26 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:
"The World's Merchant Fleets 1939", R. W. Jordan
"Lloyd's War Losses", Vol I.

Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined returned to port (except those that are linked, which will automatically be underlined. The Norwegian Bernhard, however, did return).

MoWT = Ministry of War Transport

Ship
Nationality
Cargo
Station
Destination
Remarks
Nicolaos Piangos
Greek
grain
Belfast d. g. / Avonmouth
Listed in SC 25
Sheaf Crown
British
pig iron - scrap iron
22
Middlesbrough
Treworlas
"
phosphates
32
London
From BHX 104
Kyma
Greek
wheat
83
Avonmouth
Norwegian
lumber
63
Milford Haven / Plymouth
From SC 22
"
lumber
44
Belfast
"
lumber
Boston
From SC 23
Listed in SC 25
Winterswijk
Dutch
phosphates
33
Grangemouth
Photinia
British
grain
11
Ipswich
From SC 23
Atlanticos
Greek
grain
52
Manchester
From SC 23
Norwegian
pulp
12
Gravesend
From SC 23
"
nitrates
Belfast d. g. / Avonmouth
To SC 26 - did not sail
To SC 28 - did not sail
To SC 31 - did not sail
Listed in SC 33
(See also voyage record)
Berkel
Dutch
phosphates
13
Grimsby
From SC 23
Swiftpool
British
grain
31
Hull
From SC 23
Framlington Court
"
grain
41
Newcastle
From HX 110
Panos
"
steel - lumber
Manchester
From SC 23
(does not show up again until SC 31)
Asiatic
"
steel - lumber
71
Garston
From SC 21
Norwegian
pit props
Belfast d. g. / Barry Dock
From SC 23
To SC 25 - returned
Listed in SC 26
Fanø
Danish / MoWT 1940
pit props
Cardiff
Listed in SC 25
Flynderborg
Danish / MoWT 1940
pit props
82
Cardiff
From SC 23
Brave Coeur
American / MoWT 1941
steel - trucks
81
Newport
(Renamed Empire Gull)
From SC 23
Norwegian
bauxite
74
Larne
From SC 23
"
lumber
Boston
Listed in SC 25
Start Point
British
grain
21
Hull
Flaminian
"
sugar - rum
Newport
From SC 22
Listed in SC 27
Bruxelles
Belgian
steel
43
Middlesbrough
Norwegian
steel - lumber
23
W. Hartlepool
Thistleglen
British
steel - scrap iron
42
Glasgow
From HX 111
Tilsington Court
"
steel - trucks - special
61
Newport
Zurichmoor
"
grain
Manchester
Listed in SC 25
Manchester Commerce
"
general
51
Manchester
From HX 112
Norwegian
scrap iron
53
Ardrossan
See SC 20
Returned to Halifax
To SC 26 - did not sail
To SC 28 - returned
Follow link to Bernhard
Emmy
Greek
pit props
62
Swansea
From SC 20
Norwegian
timber
64
Belfast
From SC 21
Kalypso Vergotti
Greek
phosphate
72
Avonmouth
From HX 111
Returned to Halifax
Listed in SC 27
Norwegian
timber
73
Northwich(?) / Sharpness
From HX 111
Western Chief
American / MoWT 1940
steel - general
84
Newport
Sunk - See Notes


Notes:
Commodore was in Manchester Commerce, Vice Commodore in Tilsington Court.

Western Chief, on a voyage from New York for Newport with 7400 tons of steel, became a straggler and was sunk on March 14 by the Italian Submarine Emo. She had a crew of 42 and 1 gunner - 22 crew perished.

The convoy arrived rendezvous on March 15.

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):
Campanula - From 16/03/41 to 19/03/41
Collingwood - From 28/02/41 to 01/03/41
Freesia - From 16/03/41 to 19/03/41
Pimpernel - From 16/03/41 to 19/03/41
Vanquisher - From 15/03/41 to 19/03/41
Whitehall - From 15/03/41 to 19/03/41
Winchelsea - From 15/03/41 to 19/03/41
Wolfe - From 28/02/41 to 15/03/41

Related external link:
Italian submarines - includes names of other ships sunk by Emo.

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