Convoy SC 156 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

CONVOY SC 156 Departed Halifax on March 29-1944 and arrived Liverpool on Apr. 13.
Arnold Hague gives 40 ships.

Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.

Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined returned.

MOWT = Ministry of War Transport

Ship

Nationality

Cargo

Destination

Remarks

Hjelmaren

Swedish

sugar

Greenock

Crete

Greek

flour - general - metal

Liverpool

–

Stad Maassluis

Dutch

steel - lumber

London

–

Ruth I

Norwegian

steel - pit props

Hull

Agwidale

American

refrig.

Liverpool

–

West Cheswald

"

general

Swansea

Flight Command

Panamanian

general

Cardiff

From SC 155

Potter

"

general - sand

Liverpool

From SC 155

Empire Foam

British

flour

Glasgow

–

Uranienborg

Danish / MOWT 1940

copper - lumber

Immingham

–

Nailsea Moor

British

flour

Leith Dock

–

West Nilus

American

general

Barry Roads f. o.

John J. Crittenden

"

general - mail

London

Oldham

"

general - sand

Mersey

From SC 155
Abandoned - See * below

William T. Russel

"

general

Milford Haven f. o.

–

Colin

Panamanian

sulphur - gravel

Garston

From SC 155
Returned to Halifax
Joined SC 157 - sunk

Pan Gulf

American

Army general

Swansea

–

Magician

British

general - mail

London

–

Victory Sword

American

general

Glasgow

–

Hoffman

U.S.S.

general

Milford Haven f. o.

–

William L. Marshall

American

general

Milford Haven f. o.

Olambala

Panamanian

general

Mersey

Christine Marie

British

copper - lumber

Garston

–

Beaconoil

Panamanian

Adm. tanker B

Mersey / Milford Haven f. o. (Devonport)

–

Empire Arun

British

general

Liverpool

–

Ena

Dutch

Adm. tanker B

Belfast Dock

–

Exford

American

general

Liverpool

–

Geisha

Norwegian

general

Liverpool

–

Hollywood

American

general

Mersey

Listed in SC 157

Heyser

British(?)

Tanker

Jarrow-on-Tyne

Returned to Halifax
Listed in SC 157

Inverbank

"

concentrates - wool - mail

Liverpool

–

Iron Baron

Norwegian

steel - lumber

Belfast Dock

–

Julius H. Barnes

American

general

Mersey

–

Kenmar

"

general

Milford Haven. f. o. (Southampton)

–

Lieutenant de la Tour

French

general

Hull

Listed in SC 157

Lagarfoss

Icelandic

general

Loch Ewe for Iceland

Lord Cochrane

British

lumber

West Hartlepool

–

Loreto

"

nitrates - cotton - metal ores - mail

Liverpool

–

Norsktank

Norwegian

Tanker B

Mersey / Manchester

–

Romulus

"

sugar - citrus pulp - mail

Liverpool

–

Salamaua

British

zinc - wool - hemp seeds - mail

Avonmouth

–

South America

Norwegian

Tanker B

Barton

Vitrovius

American

general - lumber - fuel

London

–

Utahan

"

general

Liverpool

–

West Honaker

"

general - sand

Cardiff

–

West Keene

"

general

Mersey

Wilbur Wright

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)

Wilscox

"

sand

Newport

Arrived St. John's
Listed in HX 288

Wisla

Polish

general

Manchester

–

Willis A. Slater

American

sulphur

London

–

West Grama

"

general

Barry Dock

–

LST 292

U.S.S.

general

Londonderry / Milford Haven / Falmouth

LST 509

"

general - Tanker B

Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)

–

LST 500

"

general

Clyde / Milford Haven / Plymouth

–

LST 137

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)

–

LST 291

"

general - tanker B

Milford Haven f. o.

Listed in SC 157

LST 57

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)

–

LST 532

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. / Falmouth / Southampton

–

LST 515

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Plymouth)

–

LST 523

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Plymouth)

–

LST 510

"

general

Londonderry / Milford Haven / Plymouth

–

LST 533

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)

–

LST 293

"

general

Milford Haven / Falmouth / Southampton(?)
(hard to decipher)

–

LST 294

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Plymouth)

–

LST 534

"

general

Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton)

–

LST 58

"

general - tanker B

Milford Haven f. o. (Plymouth)

–

El Aleto

British

none given

Clyde / London (Shellhaven)

Goodwin

"

Rescue Vessel

Clyde

–

Mount Rhodope

Greek

none given

Manchester

–

Lucellum

British

Tanker B

Heysham / Dingle

From HX 285

Joining from N.F. (sailed March 31)

Larranga

American

general - lumber

Loch Ewe for Iceland

Fort Binger

French

newsprint

London

–

The Rescue Vessel Goodwin was on her 8th voyage as such, having started this voyage from Clyde on Febr. 28-1944 with the westbound Convoy ONS 30, to Halifax March 13, then returned with SC 156 to Clyde March 29-Apr. 13 ("Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague).

* Oldham was abandoned due to a broken propeller shaft on Apr. 10 and her 51 crew recovered by Goodwin, while Oldham was towed to St. John's.

For more deatils on Goodwin's other rescues on this voyage, see Ruth I and South America.