Convoy HX 298 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
CONVOY HX 298
Departed New York City on July 3-1944 and arrived Liverpool on the 18th.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 115 ships in this convoy.
| Transcribed from several documents received from Roger Griffiths - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. |
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| Ship | Nationality | Cargo | Destination | Remarks |
| Regent Panther | British | Tanker W | London (Thameshaven) | From HX 297 |
| Rufus Choate | American | general | Liverpool | From HX 297 |
| Lagarfoss | Icelandic | general | Loch Ewe / Iceland | (See also RU 130) |
| Beaconoil | Panamanian | Tanker B | Grangemouth | – |
| Panamanian | Tanker B | Mersey | Sailed in HX 299 | |
| Reaveley | British | general | Glasgow | – |
| Empire Heritage | " | Tanker B | Mersey / Clyde | Commodore Vessel |
| Dromore | " | general | Manchester | Vice Commodore |
| Tudor Prince | " | sugar - general | Liverpool | – |
| Earlscourt Park | " | lumber - metal | Methil / London (via Oban) | – |
| Egyptian Prince | " | sugar - fruit pulp | Methil / London (via Oban) | – |
| Athelviking | " | molasses | Clyde / Saltend | – |
| Samaritan | " | grain | Liverpool | – |
| Fort Pitt | " | general | Tyne | – |
| Beaconstreet | " | Tanker B | Clyde | – |
| " | Tanker B | Loch Ewe f. o. | Sailed in HX 299 | |
| Empire Chapman | " | Tanker W | Stanlow | – |
| Erodona | " | Tanker W | Birkenhead / Barton and ? | – |
| Geo. W. McKnight | " | Tanker W | Avonmouth / Mersey | – |
| Roxane | French | Tanker B | Scapa | – |
| William Crompton | American | Tanker B | Swansea for deck cargo / Falmouth | From HX 297 |
| Scandia | British | Tanker B | Mersey / Milford Haven / Southampton | – |
| Scottish Heather | " | Tanker B | Milford Haven / Portsmouth | – |
| Sovac | " | Tanker B | Stanlow / Barton / Mersey | – |
| Norwegian | Tanker B | Stanlow | To HX 299 - did not sail Sailed in HX 300 | |
| Norvarg | " | sugar | Clyde | Ex Empire Elk |
| Princ Andrej | Yugoslavian | sugar | Methil / London (via Oban) | – |
| Rhea | French | Tanker B | Clyde | – |
| Dageid | Norwegian | Tanker W | Barton | – |
| " | Tanker B | Clyde | – | |
| Petter | " | Tanker W | Clyde | – |
| Strinda | " | Tanker B | Mersey / Dingle | – |
| Thorhild | " | Tanker B | Heysham / Barrow | – |
| Vanja | " | Tanker W | London / Shellhaven | – |
| Høegh Scout | " | Tanker W | Humber (Saltend) / Hull | – |
| Torborg | " | Tanker W | London / Shellhaven | – |
| Eleazar Lord | American | general | Liverpool / Manchester | – |
| Thomas J. Lyons | " | sugar | Clyde / Liverpool (July 22) | From HX 297 |
| Raymond Clapper | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Themistocles | Greek | general | Mersey | – |
| Juan N. Seguin | American | general | Liverpool / Garston | – |
| Donald W. Bain | " | general | Hull | – |
| " | general | Liverpool | Sailed in HX 299 | |
| Horace Binney | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| William Ellery | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Joseph Le Conte | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| " | general | Belfast f. o. | Sailed in HX 299 | |
| Campfire | " | grain | Manchester | – |
| Horace Luckenbach | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Katrina Luckenbach | " | general | Cardiff | – |
| John McKinley | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Arizpa | " | general | Swansea | – |
| George A. Marr | " | general | Manchester | – |
| Benjamin R. Curtis | " | general | Liverpool for tugs / Newport | – |
| Steel Traveler | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| John H. Murphy | " | general | Glasgow | – |
| Alan-A-Dale | Panamanian | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Stephen Johnson Field | American | general | Liverpool | – |
| Rufus C. Dawes | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Edward B. Haines | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Joseph R. Lamur | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| James M. Porter | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Schoharie | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Abangarez | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Frederick H. Newell | " | general | Belfast / Cairn Ryan | – |
| William J. Worth | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Patrick C. Boyle | " | general | Immingham | – |
| Thomas W. Hyde | " | general | Hull | – |
| Abner Nash | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Pocahontas | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Elisha Graves Otis | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| William Few | " | general | Belfast / Cairn Ryan | – |
| Thomas Todd | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Walter Raleigh | " | general | Hull | – |
| John Colter | " | general | Immingham | – |
| James Fenimore Cooper | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Frank C. Emerson | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Vav | Norwegian | Tanker B | Isle of Grain | From HX 297 |
| G. C. Brøvig | " | Tanker B | Milford Haven / Devonport | – |
| Richard J. Cleveland | American | Tanker B | London (Coryton) | – |
| Mary Ashley Townsend | " | Tanker B | London (Thameshaven) | – |
| Richmond P. Hobson | " | sugar | Liverpool (July 27) | – |
| Andrew Marschalk | " | Tanker B | London (Purfleet) | – |
| HMS Prefect | British | military equipment | Loch Ewe / Rosyth | – |
| Joining from Sydney C. B. | ||||
| Mount Orford Park | British | grain | Hull (via Oban) | From HX 297 |
| Stad Haarlem | Dutch | grain | Newcastle | From HX 297 |
| Algenib | Dutch | grain | Belfast Dock | From HX 297 |
| Ann Stathatou (Stathatos?) | Greek | grain | London (via Oban) | From HX 297 |
| Alcor | Dutch | flour | Avonmouth | From HX 297 |
| Manchester Trader | British | general ordnance - mail | Manchester | – |
| Cairnesk | " | general - meats | Methil / London (via Oban) | – |
| Delilian | " | general - meats | Glasgow | – |
| John Bakke | Norwegian | general - mail | Manchester | – |
| Manchester Port | British | general - mail | Manchester | – |
| Ivan Topic | Yugoslavian | grain | Barry Dock | – |
| Idefjord | Norwegian | flour | Tyne | – |
| British | wood pulp | Rochester | From HX 297 scheduled to sail from St. John's Listed in HX 300 | |
| Joining from Halifax - Sailed July 5 | ||||
| British | meat - flour - metal - general | Mersey f. o. | Sailed in HX 300 | |
| Samur | " | grain | Methil / London (via Oban) | – |
| Louis Joliet | American | grain | Avonmouth | From HX 296 |
| Empire Maccabe | British | Admiralty tanker B | Clyde | See Notes on Convoy HX 302 page |
| Empire MacMahon | " | Admiralty tanker B | Clyde | See Notes on Convoy HX 302 page |
| Miralda | " | Admiralty tanker B | Clyde | – |
| La Salle Park | " | grain | Methil / London (via Oban) | – |
| Corrales | " | meat - metal - general | Clyde / Liverpool | – |
| Harriet Tubman | American | grain | Avonmouth | From HX 297 |
| James Bowie | " | Army general | Cardiff | From HX 297 |
| Gdynia | Swedish | general | Belfast Dock | – |
| Benjamin H. Grierson | American | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Cleveland Abbe | " | general | Belfast (Cairn Ryan to arr. July 29) | – |
| Columbian | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| Edward Everett | " | general | Glasgow for heavy lifts and f. o. | – |
| Exmouth | " | general | Hull | – |
| Jean | " | general | Immingham | – |
| " | general | Oban | Sailed in HX 299 | |
| Miaoulis | Greek | grain | Liverpool | – |
| Oran M. Roberts | American | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Salmon P. Chase | " | general | Manchester | – |
| Samuel de Champlain | " | general | Swansea | – |
| Stephen C. Foster | " | general | Oban f. o. | – |
| Thomas Sim Lee | " | general | Avonmouth | From HX 297 |
| Vinland | Norwegian | general | Liverpool | – |
| William Leavitt | American | grain | Liverpool | – |
| Caxton | British | newsprint | Manchester | – |
| Additionally, the Rescue Vessel Eddystone - see Notes below (not mentioned in Advance Sailing Telegram) |
Notes:
Commodore A. N. Hakking was in Empire Heritage, Vice Commodore was J. O. Dunn in Dromore. Commodore's notes are not available.
The Rescue Vessel Eddystone was on her 6th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 240 on June 10-1944, to Halifax June 25 - returning with HX 298 from Halifax on July 5, to Clyde July 17 ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).
Please note that more information on all the Norwegian ships listed in this convoy can be found with the help of the index below.
Related external links:
Liberty Ships - Website such as this, and the 2 below are very handy for checking spelling of the ships (convoy docs don't always have the correct spelling, or they may be difficult to decipher). A great deal of the ships listed as American in the table above were Liberty ships. This website lists them alphabetically.
Fort (+ Ocean & Park) ships
Empire ships - The site also lists "Sam"-ships and other Liberty ships that came under the British flag.
To the next HX convoy in my list HX 299
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| Sp–St | Su–Sø | Ta–Te | Th–Ti | To | Tr–Tø | U | V | W | Ø |
