Convoy HX 191 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

Convoy HX 191 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on May 24-1942 and arrived Liverpool on June 6 (Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 24 ships).

List received from Ted Agar. (His source: A diary. Although the information is usually incomplete, I consider this diary valuable and important in and of itself and, therefore, I've chosen to transcribe it and keep it "as is" on this website, adding further details and/or corrections from other sources separately, rather than within the form itself [except for cargoes], as seen below).

Cargoes have been extracted from a document received from D. Kindell, based on the late Arnold Hague's database - see his listing for HX 191 at Ships in all HX convoys.

Br=British, Am=American, Norw=Norwegian, Bel=Belgian, Sw=Swedish, Gr=Greek.
RV=Rescue Vessel

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

11
Empire Stanley
grain
CAM ship
(Br)

21
Dorelian
general
(Br)

31
Taron
aviation gas
(Br)

41
Manchester Port
general
(Br)

51
Corrales
general - mail
passengers
(Br)

61
Tactician
general
(Br)

71
Torr Head
general
passengers
(Br)

81
Melmore Head
general
(Br)

91
Jean Jadot
general - mails
(Bel)

12
Cairnvalona?
general
(Br)

or

Lynghaug?
flour
(Norw)

22
Ocean Honour
general
(Br)

32
Elisabeth van Belgie
sugar
4 mails
(Bel)

42

Empire Flamingo

pig iron
(Br)

52

62
Sovac
lub. oil
(Br)

72
Santa Elisa
general
41 passengers
(Am)

82

Margarita Chandris

(Gr)

92
Empire Nightingale
steel
(Br)

13

23
Empire Dunstan
flour
(Br)

33
Consuelo
general
(Br)

43
Fort Amherst
(Br)

53
Ocean Faith?
wheat
(Br)

or

Hjelmaren?
general
(Sw)

63
Doña Aurora
general
26 passengers
(Am)

73
James Lykes
general
(Am)

83
Aegeus
grain
(Gr)

93
New York City
general
(Br)

14

24

34

44
Meigle
(Br)

54
Zamalek
(Br)
RV

64

74

84

94

Melmore Head, Empire Dunstan and Margarita Chandris had been cancelled from the slow Convoy SC 84. Margarita Chandris is listed as sailing in SC 85.
Also, a note for SC 85 states that Empire Union and Boston City, sailing in that convoy, originally came from HX 191.
Doña Aurora had been cancelled from the previous convoy, HX 190.

Some of the ships have been given the same station number in the diary, hence my question marks. However, when comparing the above with A. Hague's listing for HX 191 at Ships in all HX convoys, we see that he has Cairnvalona in station 12, Lynghaug in station 13, Hjelmaren in station 53 and Ocean Faith in station 52. The Greek Aegeus has been given station 82.
For Empire Flamingo, he has a note saying "after long repairs", and adds that she returned to port - she's listed in the next convoy, HX 192. An explanation for her previous need of repairs can be found on my page about HX 161.
He says Fort Amherst and Meigle were detached for St. John's, N.F., but no date is given.
Taron became a straggler on May 30.