Convoy HX 289 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
CONVOY HX 289
Advance Sailing Telegram gives departure New York on Apr. 26-1944, A. Hague gives Apr. 27 - arrived Liverpool on May 13.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 130 ships in this convoy.
| Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. |
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| Ship | Nationality | Cargo | Destination | Remarks |
| Kent | British | refrig. - general | Liverpool | – |
| Samholt | " | general | Manchester | – |
| Eros | " | refrig. | Liverpool | – |
| Fort Louisbourg | " | grain - general | Hull | – |
| F. J. Wolfe | " | Tanker B | Avonmouth | From HX 287 |
| Empire Abbey | " | refrig. - general | Liverpool | From HX 288 |
| Empire Flint | " | Tanker B | Stanlow | – |
| " | steel - lumber | Loch Ewe f. o. | Listed in HX 291 | |
| British Glory | " | Tanker B | Stanlow | Returned to New York Listed in HX 290 |
| San Ambrosio | " | Adm. tanker B | Londonderry / Belfast | – |
| " | Tanker W | Grangemouth | Listed in HX 291 | |
| British Gratitude | " | Tanker W | Bowling | – |
| British Prestige | " | Adm. tanker W | Loch Ewe for Iceland | (See also RU 120) |
| Diplodon | " | Tanker B | Birkenhead | – |
| Empire Beresford | " | Tanker W | Humber | Returned to New York Listed in HX 290 |
| Empire Inventor | " | Tanker W | Clyde / Humber (Killingholme?) | – |
| Empire Traveller | " | Tanker W | Humber (Saltend) | – |
| Nassarius | " | Tanker W | Stanlow | – |
| Empire Plover | " | sugar | Liverpool | (Listed as Janelew in some earlier convoys on this site) |
| Cape Sable | " | sugar | Greenock | – |
| Fort Ticonderoga | " | sugar | London | – |
| " | lumber - general | Loch Ewe f. o. | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Tekoa | " | refrig. - general | Liverpool | – |
| Tureby | Danish (MOWT 1940?) | general | Barry Dock | – |
| Lechistan | Polish | general | Manchester | – |
| Fernwood | * | general | Liverpool | – |
| *The tonnage for this ship is given as 1892 gt in the Advance Sailing Telegram, which was the British Fernwood (built 1923), but when going to a document showing the Norwegian Fernwood's voyages at this time, we see that the information matches up with this ship. See Fernwood. | ||||
| Pan Scandia | Norwegian | Tanker B | Swansea | – |
| Morgenen | " | Tanker B | Mersey / Manchester | – |
| " | Tanker B | Dingle | From HX 288 Listed in HX 290 | |
| Belinda | " | Tanker B | Manchester | – |
| Ferncourt | " | Tanker B | Mersey / Manchester | – |
| Skaraas | " | Tanker B | Clyde | – |
| " | Adm. tanker B | Clyde | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Joseph William Polk* | American | general | Manchester | – |
| * Mis-spelling of Joseph W Folk? | ||||
| Augustus Saint Gaudens | " | sulphur - general | Liverpool | – |
| Kielce | Polish | sulphur | Garston | – |
| " | sulphur | Mersey | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | American | general | Manchester | – |
| Clark Howell | " | general | Leith Dock | – |
| Edward L. Grant | " | general | Liverpool / Manchester | – |
| Benjamin Holt | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Billy Sunday | " | general | Glasgow | – |
| Cyrus T. Brady | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Artigas | Panamanian | general | Immingham | – |
| John LaFarge | American | general | Glasgow | – |
| Philip Livingston | " | general | Glasgow | – |
| John H. Murphy | " | general | Glasgow | – |
| " | general | Liverpool | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Frederick H. Newell | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| James Fenimore Cooper | " | general | Manchester | – |
| Cleveland Abbe | " | general | Manchester | – |
| Fluor Spar | " | general | Immingham | – |
| Schoharie | " | general | Middlesbrough | – |
| Santa Marta | " | general | Cardiff | – |
| Katrina Luckenbach | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| El Oceano | Panamanian | general | Liverpool | – |
| Walter A. Luckenbach | American | general | Liverpool | – |
| Illinoian | " | general | Hull | – |
| Susan Colby | " | general | Tyne | – |
| Montgomery City | " | general | Cardiff | – |
| Backhuysen | Dutch | Tanker W | London (Purfleet) | – |
| Stephen Johnson Field | American | general | Glasgow | – |
| Abner Nash | " | general | Swansea | – |
| Sebastian Viscaino | " | general | Birkenhead | – |
| " | general | Mersey | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Florence Martus | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Theodore Parker | " | general | Sunderland | – |
| Charles Robinson | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Salmon P. Chase | " | general | Glasgow | – |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| " | general | Mersey | Listed in HX 290 | |
| John Chandler | " | general | Newport | – |
| Howard E. Coffin | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| John McKinley | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Robert Lowry | " | general | Swansea | – |
| John Paul Jones | " | general | Cardiff | – |
| " | general | Mersey f. o. | Listed in HX 290 | |
| " | general | Mersey f. o. | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Maria Mitchell | " | general | Swansea | – |
| Abner Doubleday | " | general | Milford Haven f. o. (Plymouth) | From HX 288 |
| Robert Fechner | " | general | Immingham | – |
| Earl Layman | " | general | Manchester | – |
| William Dean Howells | " | general | Hull | – |
| William R. Day | " | general | Manchester | – |
| " | general | Loch Ewe f. o. | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Hanley | " | general | London | – |
| " | Tanker W | Heysham | – | |
| Thomas F. Cunningham | " | Adm. tanker B | Clyde | – |
| " | Tanker W | Mersey f. o. | – | |
| Albert G. Brown | " | Tanker B | Dingle | – |
| William E. Pendleton | " | Tanker W | Swansea | – |
| " | Adm. tanker B | Clyde | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Joseph Goldberger | " | Adm. tanker B | Clyde | – |
| Willard Hall | " | general | Liverpool | From HX 288 |
| Skotaas | Norwegian | Adm. tanker B | Clyde / Scapa | From HX 288 |
| Alan-A-Dale | Panamanian | general | Cardiff | From HX 288 |
| Owen Wister | American | general | Liverpool | From HX 288 |
| Mobile City | " | general | Glasgow | From HX 288 |
| Edward Everett | " | general | Newport | From HX 288 |
| Samuel Blatchford | " | general | Birkenhead | From HX 288 |
| Joseph R. Lamur | " | general | Liverpool | From HX 288 |
| Torborg | Norwegian | Tanker B | London (Shellhaven) | From HX 288 |
| British | lumber - lead | Immingham | From HX 288 Listed in HX 290 | |
| Charles A. McAllister | American | general | Milford Haven f. o. (Plymouth) | – |
| Blue Jacket | " | refrig. - general - mail 700 | Liverpool | From CU 22 |
| Joseph A. Brown | " | general - mail 1000 | Liverpool | – |
| George Rogers Clark | " | general | Immingham | – |
| Mauna Kea | " | general | Glasgow | – |
| Joining from Halifax - Sailed Apr. 28 (29?) | ||||
| Fort Lajoie | British | steel - timber | Methil f. o. (London) | From HX 288 |
| High Park | " | flour - general | Tyne | From HX 288 |
| Delilian | " | general - flour - meat | Liverpool | – |
| Fort Covington | " | steel - lumber | Methil f. o. (London) | – |
| Rideau Park | " | general - metal - grain | Tyne | – |
| Dromore | " | general - flour - metal | Manchester | – |
| Manchester Trader | " | grain - metal | Manchester | – |
| Corrales | " | general - meat - metal | London | From HX 288 |
| Swedish | sugar | Liverpool | From HX 288 To HX 292 (Sydney portion) - returned Listed in HX 294 in June | |
| Empire Ortolan | British | steel - pulp | London | (Listed as Labette in some earlier convoys on this site) From HX 288 |
| Empire MacCallum | " | (MAC) grain | Belfast f. o. (Liverpool) | – |
| Tetela | " | general - meat - metal | London | – |
| Empire MacColl | " | (MAC) Tanker B | Clyde | – |
| Empire MacRae | " | (MAC) grain | Liverpool | – |
| Augustus S. Merrimon | American | general | Liverpool | – |
| Alexander Martin | " | general | Cardiff | – |
| Benjamin H. Grierson | " | general | Swansea | – |
| Blenheim | " | general - lumber | Milford Haven f. o. (London) | – |
| Cairnvalona | British | grain - meat - general | Tyne | – |
| Chignecto Park | " | pulp | Rochester | – |
| Charles Dauray | American | general | Hull | – |
| David B. Johnson | " | general - grain | London | – |
| Edwin L. Drake | " | general - grain - lumber | Avonmouth | – |
| Edwin W. Moore | " | general | Hull | – |
| " | general | Barry Roads f. o. | Listed in HX 290 | |
| Elijah Kellogg | " | general | London | – |
| Edmund Fanning | " | general | Newport | – |
| Georgian | " | general | Bromborough | – |
| Gatineau Park | British | grain - general - mail | Manchester | – |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | American | general | Manchester | – |
| Henry Middleton | " | general | Bromborough | – |
| Manchester Port | British | steel - newsprint | London | – |
| Moveria | " | general - meat | Glasgow | – |
| Rufus C. Dawes* | American | general | Glasgow | – |
| * This ship is listed as Rulus C. Dawes at the Liberty Ships website. | ||||
| Riverdale Park | British | general - flour | Manchester | – |
| British Freedom | " | Tanker B | Milford Haven f. o. (Portsmouth) | From HX 288 |
| Additionally, the Rescue Vessel Aboyne - see Notes below (not mentioned in Advance Sailing Telegram) | ||||
| Joining from St. John's, N.F. - Sailed Apr. 30 | ||||
| Riverview Park | British | general | Manchester | From HX 288 |
| Joining from Sydney, C. B. | ||||
| Margarita Chandris | Greek | grain | Leith Dock | – |
| Alder Park | British | general | Liverpool | – |
| Rodsley | " | paper | Methil f. o. (London) | – |
| Ann Stathatos | Greek | none given | Belfast Dock | – |
| Whiteshell Park | British | none given | Liverpool | – |
Notes:
Commodore, Captain W. E. B. Magee, R.N. was in Eros, Vice Commodore, Captain W. J. Mills, R.N.R. was in Samholt.
Commodore's notes are not available - escorts not known.
The Rescue Vessel Aboyne was on her 4th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde on Apr. 7-1944 with the westbound Convoy ON 231, to Halifax Apr. 22, then returned to Clyde with Convoy HX 289, Apr. 29-May 14 ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).
All the Norwegian ships in this convoy are discussed on this website - use alphabet index below to find them.
Related external links:
Liberty Ships - The vast majority of the ships listed as American in the table above were Liberty ships. This website lists them alphabetically. (The Advance Sailing Telegrams do not always spell the names correctly, and I always check the spelling of each and every Liberty Ship against what is found on this site before I upload a convoy).
List of Liberty Ships by Hull No. - Includes info on the men and women for whom the ships were named (from Wikipedia).
Empire Ships - Also listed in alphabetical order. The site also has a section listing the "Sam"-ships, and other Liberty ships, some of which came under the British flag.
To the next HX convoy in my list HX 290
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| L | M | N | O | PQ | R | Sa–Sc | Se–Sj | Sk–Sn | So |
| Sp–St | Su–Sø | Ta–Te | Th–Ti | To | Tr–Tø | U | V | W | Ø |
