Convoy HX 8 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

Convoy HX 8 Cruising Order
Departed Halifax on Nov 10-1939 and arrived Liverpool on the 25th (Arnold Hague agrees with 34 ships).

Transcribed from original documents received from Roger Griffiths (his source: Public Records Office, Kew).

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

11
Counsellor
cotton
Liverpool
(Br)

21
Manchester Brigade
general
Liverpool
(Br)

31
Windsorwood
grain
Liverpool
(Br)

41
Daldorch
pig iron
Liverpool
(Br)

51
Miralda
diesel & fuel oil
Falmouth
(Br)

61
Humber Arm
paper pulp
London
(Br)

71
Queen Victoria
lumber - zinc
London
(Br)

81
Barn Hill
general
London
(Br)

91
Boltonhall
general
London
(Br)

12
Delilian
general
Glasgow
(Br)

22
Sheaf Holme
grain - flour
Glasgow
(Br)

32
Cressington Court
lead - lumber
Liverpool
(Br)

42
Somme
general
Liverpool
(Br)

52
Cowrie
diesel & fuel oil
Weymouth
(Br)

62
Bradfyne
grain - lumber
London
(Br)

72
President Sergent
crude oil
Dunkerque
(Fr)

82
Kinross
wheat - lumber
Grangemouth
(Br)

92
Ripley
grain - lumber
Hull
(Br)

13
Dakotian
general
Avonmouth
(Br)

23
Toronto City
general
Cardiff
(Br)

33
Langleetarn
cereals
London
(Br)

43
Baron Ailsa
crude - sulphur
Liverpool
(Br)

53
Victolite
crude oil
Le Havre
(Br)

63
Benvorlich
wheat - lumber
London
(Br)

73
Adellen
fuel oil
Southend
(Br)

83
Hopemount
crude oil
Le Havre
(Br)

14
Virgilia
benzine
Milford Haven
(Br)

24
San Florentino
fuel oil
Milford Haven
(Br)

34
San Conrado
kerosene
Southampton
(Br)

44
Cliftonhall
maize - wheat
Avonmouth?
(Br)

54
Pellicula
crude oil
Le Havre
(Br)

64
Persephone
crude oil
Le Havre
(Pa)

74
Luxor
aviation spirits
Le Havre
(Br)

84
Henry H. Riedermenn *
crude oil
Le Havre

* I believe this is a mis-spelling of Heinrich v Reidemann (Pa)

Arnold Hague has also included the British Acavus, with a note saying "possibly this convoy for channel passage" (see HX 8 on the page listing ships in all HX convoys).