Convoy HX 148 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

Notes:
Socony and Tongariro collided on Sept. 9, so it makes sense that Tongariro was in station 25. Socony sank, 2 died.

As with all the lists from Ted Agar the ships' names appear to be given according to the time they left the pier to form the convoy, starting with the Norwegian Herbrand at 09:10, and with a few minutes between each ship, ending with the British Tongariro at 14:35. The escorting HMS Alaunia departed 5 minutes earlier than the latter. I've listed them according to nationality, keeping the sequence of departure within each nationality.

Sequence of departure according to nationality:
The British Manchester Merchant (2 bombers - this was the 2nd ship to leave, almost an hour after Herbrand), New Zealand Star, Celtic Star, Ardenvohr, Empire Silver, Lochkatrine, Brittany, Atlantian, Cornish City, City of Barcelona, British Confidence, Empire Hawk, Clan Alpine, Talthybius, Kaipaki, Tornus, Wayfarer, San Demetrio, Vancouver, Anglo Indian, Kars, Acavus, Pomella, British Faith, Socony, Nicoya, Harpasa, Diloma, Argos Hill, Laurelwood, Tongariro, and the unnamed British freighter (with 2 short open decks), which A. Hague has listed as Beaverhill.

The Dutch Corilla and Leerdam.

The Norwegian Herbrand, Ørnefjell, James Hawson, Grey County, Stigstad, Idefjord, Egda , the Panamanian Norvinn (Norwegian managers, therefore listed on this website), Vivi, and Mirlo - see links within the table above for more information on all these ships.

A. Hague names the following 18 escorts (extracted from this list of HX convoy escorts received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year):
Abelia - From 12/09/41 to 16/09/41
Alaunia - From 04/09/41 to 15/09/41
Anemone - From 12/09/41 to 15/09/41
Beagle - From 14/09/41 to 16/09/41
Bittersweet - From 07/09/41 to 10/09/41
Boadicea - From 13/09/41 to 15/09/41
Candytuft - From 07/09/41 to 10/09/41
Fennel - From 07/09/41 to 11/09/41
Lethbridge - From 04/09/41 to 07/09/41
Montgomery - From 12/09/41 to 14/09/41
Richmond - From 07/09/41 to 11/09/41
Sabre - From 15/09/41 to 16/09/41
Shediac - From 04/09/41 to 07/09/41
Sherbrooke - From 04/09/41 to 07/09/41
Shikari - From 14/09/41 to 17/09/41
Veronica - From 12/09/41 to 16/09/41
Whitehall - From 12/09/41 to 14/09/41
Witch - From 12/09/41 to 13/09/41

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