Convoy HX 324 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
CONVOY HX 324
Departed New York City on Dec. 4-1944 and arrived Liverpool on the 21st.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 55 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. A 1 form is not available to me and, therefore, I don't know the station numbers of these ships. See also westbound Convoy ON 277. |
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| Ship | Nationality | Cargo | Destination | Remarks |
| James W. Cannon | American (U.S.) | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| Susan V. Luckenbach | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| Belgian Unity | Belgian | general | Solent f. o. | From HX 322 |
| Marcus H. Tracy | American | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| Matthew Sheehan | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| George F. Patten | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| " | general | Mersey f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 | |
| Junius Smith | " | general | London | – |
| Blackhawk | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| J. L. Luckenbach | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| James D. Trask | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| " | general | Solent f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 | |
| Cornelius Ford | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| Thomas J. Lyons | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| Steel Inventor | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| " | general | Mersey f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 | |
| Elmer A. Sperry | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| Joshua L. Chamberlain | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| Edgar E. Clark | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| " | general | Mersey f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 | |
| W. P. Few? | " | general - explosives | Solent f. o. | Listed as William P. Few in the doc. (there was a William Few, Liberty ship) |
| William H. Webb | " | general - explosives | Solent f. o. | – |
| Edwin S. Nettleton | " | general - explosives | Hull | – |
| Taranaki | British | refrig. - general | Liverpool | – |
| Calumet | " | rum - sugar | Liverpool | From HX 323 |
| Port Campbell | " | refrig. - general | Liverpool | – |
| Van der Capelle | Dutch | general | Cardiff | Put back to St. John's Listed in SC 163 |
| " | general | London | Sailed in HX 325 | |
| Salland | " | general | Cardiff | – |
| Brasil | Norwegian | Tanker B | Mersey / Manchester | – |
| Fagerfjell | " | Tanker B | Clyde | – |
| " | Tanker B | Mersey | Sailed in HX 325 | |
| Lista | " | general | Hull | – |
| Solør | " | Tanker B | Dingle | From HX 323 |
| " | Tanker W | Clyde f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 (later torpedoed - see my page about Norfjell) | |
| " | Tanker W | Manchester | Sailed in HX 327 | |
| Belgian Freighter | Belgian | general | Glasgow | – |
| John LaFarge | American | general | Clyde f. o. (for Russia) | From HX 323 Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 |
| Henry Bacon | " | general | Clyde f. o. (for Russia) | Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 |
| LeBaron Russel Briggs | " | general | Clyde f. o. (for Russia) | From HX 323 Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 |
| Alanson B. Houghton | " | general | Clyde f. o. (for Russia) | Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 |
| Jose Marti | " | general | Clyde f. o. (for Russia) | Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 |
| Bernard N. Baker | " | general | Clyde f. o. (for Russia) | From HX 323 Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in RA 63 Jan. 11-1945 (See HX 319 for some other ships in RA 63) |
| " | general | Clyde f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 | |
| " | general | Clyde f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 | |
| Horace Gray | " | general - explosives | Clyde f. o. (for Russia) | Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 (later torpedoed - see text for Norfjell) |
| British | Tanker W | Clyde f. o. | Sailed in HX 325 Listed in Convoy JW 63 Dec. 30 Returned in Convoy RA 64, Febr. 17-1945 | |
| Sovac | " | Tanker B | Birkenhead / ? | From HX 323 |
| Solarium | " | Tanker B | Bromborough | – |
| Empire Industry | " | Tanker W | Southampton | – |
| San Cipriano | " | Tanker W | Shellhaven | – |
| British Harmony | " | Tanker W | Southend | – |
| "? | Tanker W | Barry Roads | Sailed in HX 325 | |
| Mary Ashley Townsend | American | Tanker B | London | From HX 323 |
| Dutch | general | London | From HX 323 Sailed in HX 325 | |
| Jose G. Benitez | American | general | Southampton | From HX 323 |
| Mataroa | British | none given | Glasgow | Commodore Vessel |
| Joseph I. Kemp | American | general | Solent f. o. | From HX 323 |
| Andrew J. Newbury | " | general | Solent f. o. | – |
| John Cropper | " | gas in cans | Solent f. o. | From HX 323 |
| Irvin S. Cobb | " | general | Solent f. o. | From HX 323 |
| Sailing from Halifax - Dec. 6 | ||||
| Glacier Park | British | grain - general - apples | Manchester | – |
| Pacific Enterprise | " | grain - general - apples | Liverpool | – |
| Bayano | " | meats - general | Liverpool | – |
| Salacia | " | general - refrig. - mail | London | From HX 322 |
| Empire MacDermott | " | grain | Liverpool | – |
| Cairnesk | " | general - mail | Plymouth | – |
| Dentonia Park | " | general | Liverpool | – |
| California Express | Norwegian | general - mail | Cardiff | – |
| Additionally, the Rescue Vessel Aboyne - see Notes |
Notes:
Commodore, Vice Admiral S. S. Bouham-Carter was in Mataroa. Commodore's notes not available.
The Rescue Vessel Aboyne (requisitioned June 24-1943) was on her 8th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde with the westbound Convoy ON 266 on Nov. 14, to Halifax Nov. 29 - returning with HX 324 from Halifax Dec. 6, to Clyde Dec. 19. ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).
More details on all the Norwegian ships in this convoy can be found with the help of the alphabet index below.
Related external links:
Liberty Ships - The vast majority (but not all) of the ships listed as American in the table above were Liberty ships. This website lists them alphabetically.
This site has more on the the "Park" ships mentioned in this convoy.
To the next HX convoy in my list HX 325
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