Convoy HX 235 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

CONVOY HX 235 Departed New York City on Apr. 18-1943 and arrived Liverpool on May 5.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 36 ships in this convoy.

Transcribed from several documents received from Roger Griffiths - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.

The ships are listed in the order in which they appear on the various documents.
~~Crossed out~~ ships did not sail, underlined ships returned to port..

A 1 form is not available to me and, therefore, I don't know the station numbers of these ships.

Ship

Nationality

Cargo

Destination

Remarks

~~Fort Grahame~~

British

lumber - general

Immingham

Ocean Viking

general

Loch Ewe f. o.

Returned to New York
Listed in SC 129 - May 2

~~Naticina~~

Tanker W

Clyde

Sailed in HX 236

Elona

Tanker W

Dingle

–

~~Empire Heritage~~

Tanker B

Swansea

Sailed in HX 236

Pacific Exporter

general

Liverpool

Commodore Vessel

Fort Charnisay

general

Cardiff

–

~~Empire Marlowe~~

general

London

Sailed in HX 236

~~Empire Reynolds~~

Tanker W

Dublin

Sailed in HX 236

~~Alexia~~

Admiralty tanker B

Clyde

Sailed in HX 236

San Eliseo

Tanker W

Bowling / Ardrossan

–

~~Fort Buckingham~~

lumber - general

Mersey

Sailed in HX 236

~~Taranaki~~

refrig. - general - 9 passengers - mail

Mersey f. o.

Sailed in HX 236

~~Port Caroline~~

refrig. - general - 7 passengers - mail

Mersey f. o.

To HX 236 - did not sail
Sailed in HX 237

Gulfpoint

American

Admiralty tanker B

Scapa

–

O. M. Bernuth

Tanker W

Avonmouth

Fitzhugh Lee

general

Liverpool

–

E. Kirby Smith

general

Liverpool

–

Elias Boudinot

sulphur

Liverpool

Collided with El Almirante
Returned to port (Halifax)
(Cancelled from HX 238 & HX 239,
listed in HX 240)

~~George Walton~~

general

Mersey f. o.

~~Walter Jennings~~

Tanker W

not known

–

J. H. Senior

Panamanian

Tanker W

Avonmouth

–

~~Vermeer~~

Dutch

Liverpool

Sailed in HX 236

~~Sandanger~~

Norwegian

Tanker W

Mersey f. o.

To HX 236 - did not sail
Sailed in HX 237 - sunk
See my page about Sandanger

~~Vanja~~

Tanker B

Clyde

~~Salamis~~

Tanker W

Avonmouth

Sailed in HX 236

~~Wendell Phillips~~

American

general

Mersey

To HX 236 - did not sail
Joined HX 237 - put back to St. John's
Sailed in HX 238

El Almirante

Panamanian

listed as Tanker, but was a steamship?

Liverpool

Sank in storm Apr. 20,
following collision with Elias Boudinot

~~Montgomery City~~

American

general

Liverpool

Sailed in HX 236

George B. McClellan

general

Liverpool

Returned to port (Halifax)
Sailed in HX 236

Pan-Delaware

Tanker W

Mersey

–

Paul H. Harwood

Tanker W

Stanlow

–

~~Permian~~

Panamanian

Tanker W

Mersey f. o.

–

Toltec

Honduran

general

Loch Ewe / Iceland

–

Emma Bakke

Norwegian

general

Liverpool

–

Noreg

Admiralty tanker B

Invergordon

Petter

Tanker W

Clyde

–

Maaskerk

Dutch

general - 80 passengers - mail

Greenock

–

Fagerfjell

Norwegian

Admiralty tanker B

Clyde

–

Meline

Tanker B

London (Shellhaven)

–

Fernmoor

general

Mersey