Convoy HX 159 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

Notes: * A message in my Guestbook suggests that British Confidence may have been in Convoy HX 160. (This ship is also mentioned in HX 148, which arrived Liverpool on Sept. 17-1941). However, A. Hague has indeed included her in HX 159; see the table below.

According to Ted's diary, the ships departed Halifax in the following order (some of these are not named in the above table):
The first to leave at 11:15 was the British Princesa (white fishtail with blue cross - Commodore Vesssel), followed 3 minutes later by the British Daltonhall and with a few minutes between each ship thereafter British Ardour, Grey County, Turkistan, Albion Star, a Dutch tanker, then Alcedo and a British freighter (in station 93, C on stack), a Norwegian tanker (32), then Glittre followed by 3 British tankers and a British freighter (station 92, 5 masts), Innerøy, Idefjord (at 12:17).

Then there's a notation saying "British Hussar (Br. tanker), Empire Bittern and Eurybates (Br. freighter) went out in convoy today, but most of the ships did not have names on them".

At 12:21 a tanker went out - no nationality given - then a British tanker followed by Sovac (S on stack) and a British freighter, Nueva Granada (Texaco on stack, also "T"), Slemmestad, Taybank, British Confidence, City of Manila, Manchester Division, Norvik (Panamanian flag, Norwegian managers and therefore, listed on this website - as can be seen, this ship is not included in A. Hague's listing below). The last vessel to leave at 14:12 was the Norwegian Kaldfonn.

Convoy HX 159
According to the late Arnold Hague's database

Received from Don Kindell - see Ships in all HX convoys.

Underlined ship returned to port.

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Du=Dutch, Pa=Panamanian, Am=American.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

11
Turkistan
general - 2 passengers
(Br)

21
Dromus
petrol
(Br)

31
British Ardour
petrol
(Br)

41
British Confidence
petrol
(Br)

51
Princesa
refrig.
(Br)

61
Sovac
lub. oil
(Br)

71
Albion Star
refrig. - general
(Br)

81
Daltonhall
grain
CAM ship
(Br)

91
Taybank
general - 2 bags mail
(Br)

12
City of Manila
iron - nuts
(Br)

22
British Hussar
fuel oil
(Br)

32
Mosli
FFO
Detached to Iceland, Nov. 19
(Norw)

42
British Hope
fuel oil
(Br)

52
Athelempress
FFO
To Hvalfjord
(Br)

62
Corilla
aviation gas
(Du)

82
Tricula
FFO
Londonderry
(Br)

92

Empire Bittern

general
(Br)

33
Glittre
dieso
(Norw)

43
Nueva Granada
dieso
(Norw)

53
Idefjord
general - 6 passengers
(Norw)

63
Eurybates
general - 78 passengers
(Br)

73
Montevideo
general
(Norw)

83

93
Newbrough
wheat
(Br)

14

24
El Oceano*
general
(Pa)
Onward to N. Russia

34
USS Yukon
general
Iceland
(Am)

44
Alcedo
general
Iceland
(Pa)

54

64
Manchester Division
refrig. - general
(Br)

74

84**
Helgøy
general
(Norw)

94
Grey County
general
(Norw)

A. Hague has also included the French Emile Baudot, as well as the British Otina in this convoy, but no station number has been given.

Empire Bittern is listed in the next convoy.

*El Oceano is listed in Convoy PQ 6 from Hvalfjord to Murmansk on Dec. 8-1941.

**Helgøy arrived in tow after engine room explosion (follow link to Helgøy).