Convoy SC 10 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
CONVOY SC 10Departed Sydney, C.B. on Oct. 29-1940 and arrived Liverpool on Nov. 13.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" also gives 14 ships in this convoy.
| Transcribed from original documents received from Tony Cooper (Advance Sailing Telegram) - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. The station numbers and names of escorts have been extracted from documents recived from Don Kindell, based on Arnold Hague's database - see ships in all SC convoys. |
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| Ship | Nationality | Cargo | Station | Destination | Remarks |
| Porjus | Swedish | lumber | 52 | Glasgow | From SC 9 |
| Norwegian | newsprint | – | Manchester | From SC 9 Listed in SC 11 | |
| Greek | iron ore | – | Port Talbot | From SC 9 Shows up again in SC 15 | |
| British | steel - scrap | – | Swansea | From SC 9 To SC 11 - did not sail To SC 12 - did not sail Listed in HX 86 (Became Norw. Norfalk in 1942, see this page) | |
| Kingsborough | " | wheat | 21 | Milford Haven / Southampton | From SC 9 |
| Spes | Norwegian | lumber | 72 | Preston | – |
| Dutch | lumber | – | Hull | From SC 9 (does not show up again on this site until SC 19) | |
| Svein Jarl | Norwegian | pulp - lumber | 32 | Gravesend | From SC 9 |
| Linge | Dutch | pulp | 11 | Gravesend | From SC 9 |
| Sheaf Crown | British | steel | 41 | Tyne | From SC 9 |
| Gaston Micard | Norwegian | lumber | 22 | Lowestoft | From SC 9 |
| Swedish | lumber | – | London | Listed in SC 11 | |
| Lagarto | British | sugar - beans | 51 | Liverpool | – |
| " | phosphates | – | Tees | Listed in SC 11 | |
| Start Point | " | phosphates | 81 | Belfast | From C 9 |
| West Point | " | steel | 31 | Grangemouth | – |
| Oropos | Greek | sulphur | 61 | Glasgow | – |
| Finnish | sugar | – | Dublin | Listed in SC 11 | |
| Swedish | phosphates | – | Londonderry | Joined SC 11 - returned to Sydney To SC 13 - did not sail (shows up again in SC 17) | |
| Hindsholm | Danish (MoWT 1940?) | lumber | 33 | London | – |
| Lily | Greek | steel - iron | 42 | Glasgow | From SC 9 |
| Baron Lovat | British | wheat | 71 | Tyne | – |
Notes:
Commodore was in Lagarto, Vice Commodore in West Point.
The convoy arrived rendezvous on Nov. 10.
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):
Folkestone - From 29/10/40 to 13/11/40
Vansittart - From 10/11/40 to 13/11/40
Walker - From 10/11/40 to 13/11/40
To the next SC convoy in my list SC 11
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| L | M | N | O | PQ | R | Sa–Sc | Se–Sj | Sk–Sn | So |
| Sp–St | Su–Sø | Ta–Te | Th–Ti | To | Tr–Tø | U | V | W | Ø |
