Convoy SC 136 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

Convoy SC 136 Cruising Order
departed Halifax on July 8-1943 and arrived Liverpool on the 23rd (Arnold Hague gives 47 ships)

List received from Ted Agar - His source: A diary.

Ted's list only shows the ships that sailed from Halifax. Names of ships joining from St. John's, N.F. and Sydney, C.B. were found in a document received from Don Kindell, based on Arnold Hague's database. Cargoes have also been extracted from that document - see SC 136 at Ships in all SC convoys.

Some of these ships had been cancelled from the previous convoy, SC 135.

Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined returned.

Br=British, Norw=Norwegian, Da=Danish, Sw=Sedish, Fr=French, Yug=Yugoslavian, Am=American, Pa=Panamanian, Gr=Greek.

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9

10

11
Baron Belhaven
steel - lumber
(Br)

21
Baron Renfrew
sugar
(Br)

31
Coulbeg
steel - lumber
(Br)

41
Elswick Park
grain
(Br)

51
Baron Graham
sugar
(Br)

71
Exilona
steel - general
(Am)

81
Empire Cormorant
general
(Br)

91
Gloucester City
general - explosives
(Br)

101
Innerton
(Br)

12
Empire Derwent
steel - lumber
(Br)

22
Saluta
USN fuel
(Br)

32
San Felix
FFO
(Br)

42
Vinga
USN fuel
Escort Oiler
(Norw)

52
San Valerio
FFO
Escort Oiler
(Br)

62
San Tirso
USN fuel
Escort Oiler
(Br)

72
West Nohno
general - explosives
(Am)

82
Valldemosa
petrol
(Br)

92
F. J. Wolfe
oil - petrol - gliders
Escort Oiler
(Br)

102
Gateway City
general - stores
(Am)

13
Bornholm
steel - lumber
(Da / Br)

23
Leonardia
lumber
(Sw)

33
Acasta
USN fuel
(Norw)

43
British Colonel
FFO
(Br)

53
Beaconoil
dieso
(Pa)

63

73
Samuel L. Fuller
FFO
(Am)

83
Sommerstad
(Norw)

93
Skotaas
benzine
(Norw)

103
Senga
flour
(Yug)

14
Mathilda
steel - pulp
(Norw)

24
Ruth I
steel - lumber
(Norw)

34
Alex
sugar
(Br)

44
Vermont
general - stores - ammunition
(Am)

54
Runswick?
sugar
(Br)
See Notes

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74
Suerte
steel - pulp
(Pa)

84
Norjerv
general - ammunition
(Norw)

94
Vinland
stores - explosives
(Norw)

104
Fort McPherson
lumber - lead
Fitted with AND
(Br)

15
PLM 17**
steel - lumber
(Br)

25
Empire Usk**
steel - lumber
(Br)

35
Timok
(Yug)

Langleebrook*
zinc concentrate
(Br)

45
Ashbel Hubbard
steel - lumber
(Br)

55
Drakepool*
grain
(Br)

Nordlys*
zinc concentrate
(Br)

65

75
North Devon
grain - MT - AFV's
(Br)

85
Empire Gareth
steel - lumber
(Br)

95
Fort de Troyon
general
(Fr)

105
Benjamin Tay
(Am)

16
Dunav*
pulp
(Yug)

26
Maliakos*
zinc concentrate
(Gr)

36

46

56

66

76
Carrier
(Norw)

86

96

106

* Drakepool returned to port and later joined SC 137. The cancelled Sommerstad, Timok and Innerton are also listed in that convoy. According to the notes for SC 137, the British John W. Arey had come from SC 136 - see also SC 135 (Sydney, C.B. portion).

Arnold Hague has listed Beaconoil as British (again, see SC 136 at Ships in all SC convoys). He says
*Dunav, Langleebrook, Maliakos and Nordlys joined from St. John's, N.F., and that
**Empire Usk and PLM 17 joined from Sydney, C.B
He has Empire Gareth in station 84, Fort McPherson in 103, Gateway City in 101, Norjerv in 83, Senga in 102. They were probably moved there after some ships, originally scheduled for these stations, had been cancelled.