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CONVOY SC 5
Departed Sydney, C.B. on Sept. 18-1940 (according to Advance Sailing Telegram) and arrived Liverpool on Oct. 3
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 43 ships in this convoy, w/departure date Sept. 19.
| Transcribed from several 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 |
| Estonian | lumber | – | Belfast | See SC 4 | |
| Gudvin | Norwegian | pulp - paper | 82 | Preston | From SC 4 |
| Gezina | " | paper - pulp wood | 55 | London | From SC 4 |
| Danish / MoWT 1940? | pulp wood | – | Medway | From SC 4 To HX 74 - did not sail Listed in SC 6 | |
| Knoll | Norwegian | lumber | 53 | Great Yarmouth | From SC 4 |
| Fanø | Danish / MoWT 1940 | lumber | 44 | Methil / Hull | From SC 3 |
| Fidelio | Norwegian | pulp wood | 74 | Barrow | – |
| Poznan | Polish | pulp wood | 23 | Ridham Dock | – |
| Ravnanger | Norwegian | steel - iron | 52 | Middlesbrough | From SC 4 |
| Ilissos | Greek | steel - scrap | 72 | Birkenhead | – |
| Kalliopi | " | sugar | 54 | Newport | – |
| Aldergrove | British | lumber | 21 | Cork | From SC 3 |
| Inga I | Norwegian | lumber | 65 | Methil / Grimsby | – |
| Leka | " | lumber | 73 | Preston | – |
| Parklaan | Dutch | pit props | 35 | Hull | – |
| Blairesk | British | pit props | 51 | Tyne | – |
| Baron Yarborough | " | lumber | 64 | Hull | From HX 75 |
| Woensdrecht | Dutch | Tanker W | 81 | Swansea | From SC 4 See also HX 71 |
| Robert | Danish / MoWT 1940 | lumber | 75 | Sharpness | – |
| Risanger | Norwegian | steel - lumber | 43 | Middlesbrough | – |
| Ellinico | Greek | iron ore | 84 | Belfast / Manchester | – |
| Samsø | Danish / MoWT 1940 | pulp wood | 31 | Methil / Ridham Dock | From SC 2 |
| Aghia Eirini | Greek | iron ore | 63 | Ardrossan | – |
| Baron Elgin | British | pit props | 41 | West Hartlepool | – |
| Creemuir | " | pit props | 11 | Hull | – |
| Adamas | Greek | bauxite | 94 | Workington | Sailed in HX 72(?) |
| Swedish | pulp wood | – | Medway | Listed in SC 6 | |
| Varangberg | Norwegian | phosphates | 24 | Hull | – |
| Hartington | British | steel | 71 | Barrow | – |
| Hawkinge | " | lumber | 61 | Hull | – |
| Norwegian | scrap iron | – | – | Listed in SC 6 | |
| Victoria | Greek | zinc concentrates | 92 | Avonmouth | – |
| British | sugar | – | Belfast f. o. | Listed in SC 6 | |
| Indra | Panamanian | general | 95 | Dublin | – |
| Greek | iron ore | – | Port Talbot | From SC 3 Also cancelled from SC 6 & SC 7 | |
| Orania | Norwegian | pulp wood | 32 | Ridham Dock | See Notes |
| Gallois | French / MoWT 1940 | iron ore | 62 | Middlesbrough | – |
| Polykarp | Norwegian | Tanker W | – | – | From SC 3"To be held at Sydney" Shows up again in SC 9 |
| Kingsland | British | pit props | 12 | West Hartlepool | From HX 74? |
| Krakow | Polish | pulp wood | 13 | Ridham Dock | – |
| Everleigh | British | grain | 14 | Cardiff | From HX 74 |
| Rossum | Dutch | lumber | 22 | Hull | – |
| Alaska | Norwegian | lumber - steel | 25 | Middlesbrough | From HX 74 |
| Vestland | " | pulp wood | 33 | Ridham Dock | – |
| Nea | " | pulp wood | 34 | Ridham Dock | From HX 74 |
| Llanwern | British | grain | 42 | Belfast | – |
| Erica | Norwegian | lumber | 83 | Preston | – |
| Embassage | British | steel - cars | 85 | Hull | From HX 74 |
| Trecarrell | " | lumber - steel | 91 | Cardiff | From HX 74 |
| Virginia S | Greek | iron ore | 93 | Cardiff | From SC 4 |
Notes:
Commodore was in Baron Elgin, Vice Commodore in Hartington.
The nationality for Orania is given as Swedish, but tonnage is given as 1182 gt, which was the Norwegian ship by this name (besides, the Swedish Orania had already been sunk - see this external page).
The convoy arrived rendezvous on Oct. 1.
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):
Arrow - From 30/09/40 to 03/10/40
Bluebell - From 01/10/40 to 02/10/40
Ellesmere - From 01/10/40 to 03/10/40
Folkestone - From 19/09/40 to 04/10/40
Keppel - From 01/10/40 to 03/10/40
Lynx - From 19/09/40 to 19/09/40
Rochester - From 01/10/40 to 02/10/40
Ullswater - From 01/10/40 to 03/10/40
Vanquisher - From 30/09/40 to 04/10/40
To the next SC convoy in my list SC 6
| Aa–Al | An–Ar | As–Av | Ba | Be | Bi–Bl | Bo | Br–Bu | C | D |
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| E | F | G | Ha | He | Hi–Hy | Hø | I | J | K |
| 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 |
