Convoy OG 79 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
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Notes:
Commodore was A. J. Baxter in Ardeola (for Gibraltar/Lisbon)
Ships sailing from Liverpool: Empire Foam, Tadorna (Vice Commodore ship, bound for Seville), Baron Ramsey, Ardeola, Empire Darwin, Empire Snipe (explosives), Lago (carried passengers).
From Clyde: Shuna, Wallsend, Innesmoor, Empire Impala.
From Milford: Tintern Abbey, Blairesk, Cara, Polo, Lynghaug, Ottinge, Shetland, Adjutant.
From Oban: Blairatholl (Rear Commodore ship, for Gibraltar), Glaisdale, British Coast (explosives), Cisneros, City of Oxford, Holmbury.
Lynghaug and Lago can be found on my page "Ships starting with L" - see the index below.
Escorts:
HMS Black Swan, La Molouine, Carnation, Bluebell, Myosotis, Campion, Stonecrop, Fowey, Mallow.
Related external link:
Chronological list of OG Convoys
