Convoy HX 6 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

Convoy HX 6 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Oct 25-1939 and arrived Liverpool on Nov. 10 (Arnold Hague says 52 ships).

Transcribed from original A 1 form received from Roger Griffiths (his source: Public Records Office, Kew).
Cargoes have been extracted from the late Arnold Hague's database (see HX 6 on the page listing ships in all HX convoys).

Nationalities of the ships have been added with the help of "The World's Merchant Fleets 1939", R. W. Jordan.

Br=British, Fr=French, Pa=Panamanian

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Manchester Regiment
general
Manchester
(Br)

21
Lochkatrine
general
Liverpool
(Br)

31
Comedian
cotton - cottonseed
Liverpool
(Br)

41
Jersey City
lumber
Liverpool
(Br)

51
Athelknight
FFO
Falmouth
(Br)

61
Cornish City
sugar
Falmouth
(Br)

71
Inversuir
petrol
Falmouth
(Br)

81
San Calisto
paraffin
Falmouth
(Br)

91
Peder Bogen
dieso
Falmouth
(Br)

12
Atlantian
cotton
Liverpool
(Br)

22
Jersey
phosphates
Liverpool
(Br)

32
Alaska*
copper - cotton
Liverpool
(Fr)

42
Atlantic*
cotton
Liverpool
(Br)

52
Agnita
dieso
Falmouth
(Br)

62
Eclipse
crude oil
Le Havre
(Br)

72
Cadillac
petrol
London
(Br)

82
Modavia
fruit - general
London
(Br)

92
Geraldine Mary
paper
London
(Br)

13
Loreto
cotton - sugar
Liverpool
(Br)

23
Trecarrell
lumber
Liverpool
(Br)

33
Holmpark
cotton
Liverpool
(Br)

43
Dalhanna
lumber - grain
Liverpool
(Br)

53
F. J. Wolfe
crude oil
Southampton
(Pa*)

63
Scottish Heather
crude oil
Le Havre
(Br)

73
Bengloe
lumber - wheat
London
(Br)

83
Deerpool
lumber - wheat
Hull
(Br)

93
Athellaird
molasses
London
(Br)

14
Kenbane Head
grain - general
Belfast
(Br)

24
Voco
lub oil
Liverpool
(Br)

34
Baron Belhaven
wheat - lumber
Liverpool
(Br)

44
Dunelmia
grain
Manchester
(Br)

54
D. L. Harper
crude oil
Southampton
(Pa [later Br.])

64
Warkworth
grain
Le Havre
(Br)

74
Pacific Enterprise*
general
(Br)

84
Appledore
lumber - wheat
Hull
(Br)

94
Robert F. Hand
paraffin
Hull
(Br)

15
Dornoch
scrap iron
Glasgow
(Br)

25
Athelking
FFO
Scapa
(Br)

35
Pecten
FFO
Scapa
(Br)

45
Narragansett
petrol
Swansea
(Br)

55
Geddington Court
lumber
Southampton
(Br)

65
Nailsea Court
wheat - cotton
Le Havre
(Br)

75
Franche Comté
petrol
Bordeaux
(Fr)

85
Carbet
sugar - rum
Bordeaux
(Fr)

95
Lustrous
crude oil
Pauillac
(Br)

16
Wearwood
grain
Glasgow
(Br)

26
Coultarn
lumber
Dundee
(Br)

36
Imperial Transport
FFO
Scapa
(Br)

46
Dalryan
phosphates
Avonmouth
(Br)

56
Northleigh
lumber
Southampton
(Br)

66
Penelope**
crude oil
Le Havre
(Pa)

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Boulderpool
steel billets
Newport
(Br)

47
Daronia
petrol
Milford Haven
(Br)

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A. Hague has added the British Baron Ruthven, with a note saying "not listed in signals, but dates match".
Also, he has the British Bridgepool, with a note "probably this convoy", as well as the British Drakepool, and it'll be noticed, when going to his listing for HX 6 on the page naming ships in all HX convoys, that several ships have been given different station numbers from what is given in the original convoy document.