Convoy SC 1 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
CONVOY SC 1
Departed Sydney, C.B. on Aug. 15-1940 and arrived Liverpool on the 29th.
Arnold Hague gives 40 ships in this convoy.
Notes:
Commodore was in Tintern Abbey, Vice Commodore in Drakepool.
Ships sunk:
Blairmore, on a voyage from Newcastle, N.B. for Tyne with a cargo of 1500 fathoms of pit props, was sunk by U-37 on Aug. 25. She had a crew of 34 - 4 of whom died (numbers vary according to source).
Eva was torpedoed by U-28 on Aug. 27 - see my page about Eva.
Elle, on a voyage from Campbellton, N.B. for Ardrossan with a cargo of pulpwood and lumber, was torpedoed on Aug. 28 by U-101. 2 died out of the 29 on board.
In addition to the above 3 merchant ships, HMS Penzance was also sunk - ref. external links below.
The convoy arrived rendezvous on Aug. 27.
Escorts (extracted from this list of SC convoy escorts, based on Arnold Hague's database, received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year):
Clarkia - From 27/08/40 to 29/08/40
Havelock - From 27/08/40 to 29/08/40
Hurricane - From 27/08/40 to 29/08/40
Leith - From 27/08/40 to 30/08/40
Penzance - From 15/08/40 to 24/08/40
Reindeer - From 15/08/40 to 16/08/40
Related external links:
The attack on Blairmore
The attack on Elle
HMS Penzance
To the next SC convoy in my list SC 2