Convoy SC 125 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
CONVOY SC 125 (Will be updated - please compare with A. Hague's listing for this convoy at ships in all SC convoys. See also SC escorts).
The ships left Halifax in the following order:
The first to go out was White Clover (went ahead of convoy for gun trials), followed by Empire Flame (Catapult freighter), Sapelo, the 6 unnamed ships in stations 11, 41, 12, 33, 52 and 42 (in other words, Dalcross, Empire Activity, Brush, Carmelfjell, Gunvor Mærsk, and Timok), then 2 unnamed British freighters (43 and 51 - Baron Scott and Baron Cawdor, as per A. Hague), the Greek freighter in station 94 (Euthalia), the unnamed ships in 53 and 32 (Norjerv and Empire Summer), the Greek ship in 54 (Agia Marina), followed by Gulhaug (which according to A. Hague was not Gulhaug but the American Gulfhawk), Caithness, Celtic Monarch, Dutch freighter (112/Bonaire), Ingleton, British freighter (102, Empire Porpoise/returned), Novasli, Gold Shell, Lodestone, Dutch freighter (103, Randfontein), Empire Cabot, British Lady, Coulbeg, Katingo Hadjipatera, Souliotis, City of Hereford, William Penn, Gothland, Margalau, Campfire, LST 336 (LST 366?), LST 406, LST 321 (LST 319?), the catapult freighter in 101 (Empire Eve) and Picotee (as already mentioned, this ship probably did not sail; she's also listed in SC 127)
Gothland (requisitioned in Nov.-1941) was on her 7th voyage as rescue vessel, having started this voyage from Clyde with the westbound convoy ON 169 on Febr. 22 (to St. John's March 13, after having encountered a survivor on a raft from the American Wade Hampton which had been torpedoed in Convoy HX 227) - then sailed in Convoy JH 42 from St. John's N.F. to Halifax March 15-18 (carrying 64 survivor passengers that had been landed in Newfoundland), and subsequently returned to the UK with SC 125 from Halifax March 31 to Clyde Apr. 14. ("Convoy Rescue Ships", Arnold Hague).
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