Convoy SC 67 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)

CONVOY SC 67 Departed Halifax on Jan. 30-1942, and arrived Liverpool on Febr. 15.
(Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 22 ships).

Advance Sailing Telegram

The information on this page has been compiled with the help of misc. sources, as follows:

Station numbers and sequence of departure were received from Ted Agar - His source: A diary.
His info has been supplemented with details received from Roy Martin - His source: Lloyd's list.
Advance Sailing Telegram was received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.
Names of escorts have been extracted from a document recived from Don Kindell, based on the late Arnold Hague's database - see also his listing for SC 67 at ships in all SC convoys. It'll be noticed that in some cases, he has given different station numbers than those provided in the diary and these have been added in parenthesis below.

Sailing date was initially set to Jan. 29 - sailed on the 30th.

Station numbers are stations upon departure Halifax; may have changed as the voyage progressed.

~~Crossed out~~ ships did not sail, underlined returned to port, except those that are linked, which will automatically be underlined. The Norwegian Tore Jarl, however, did return.

MoWT = Ministry of War Transport

Ship

Nationality

Cargo

Station

Destination

Remarks

Belgique

Belgian

general

Mersey

From SC 66
Returned to Halifax
(unable to maintain speed)
Sailed in SC 70

Brynymor

British

nitrate of soda

Newport

–

Norwegian

steel - pulp

33 (32)

Manchester

–

Lagarfoss

Icelandic

general

34 (33)

Loch Ewe / Reykjavik

–

Norwegian

grain

Leith

–

Empire Leopard

British

general

Tyne

From SC 66

Empire Beaver

general

Holyhead / Mersey

From SC 66
Returned to Halifax (rudder malfunction?)
Listed in SC 70
(became Norw. Norhauk)

~~Bridgepool~~

grain

–

Hull

Wisla

Polish

general

Manchester

From SC 66

~~Harperley~~

British

grain

–

London

From SC 66
Listed in SC 69

~~President Francqui~~

Belgian

Tanker B

–

Avonmouth

Listed in SC 69

Mana

Honduran

general

Clyde / N. Russia

Tintagel

American

general

Clyde / N. Russia

From SC 66
In collision, returned to port in tow (St. John's)
Does not show up again until SC 85
(not listed in any convoy to Russia)

Atlanticos

Greek

grain

14 (13)

London

From SC 66

Stone Street

Panamanian

general

54 (53)

Clyde / N. Russia

(From HX 167)
Joined Convoy PQ 12
(ref. external link below)
See also QP 10 and QP 11

~~Senga~~

Yugoslavian

general

–

London

~~Peribonka~~

Belgian

nitrates

–

Plymouth

To SC 68 - did not sail
Listed in SC 69

~~Novasli~~

Norwegian

grain

–

Ipswich

To SC 68 - did not sail
Listed in SC 69

Penolver

British

general

Milford / Southampton

–

Mount Taurus

Greek

grain

London

From SC 66

~~Colytto~~

Dutch

iron ore

–

Barrow

Listed in SC 68

Norwegian

Adm. tanker B
(FFO)

42 (41)

Clyde

–

~~Anneberg~~

Finnish / MoWT 1941

pulp wood

–

Manchester

~~Dean Emery~~

Panamanian

Tanker B

–

Ardrossan

~~Gallant Fox~~

general

–

Clyde / N. Russia

~~Lord Byron~~

British

grain

–

Loch Ewe f. o.

Listed in SC 68

~~Philip T. Dodge~~

general

–

Avonmouth

To SC 69 - did not sail
To SC 70 - returned
Listed in SC 72

Norwegian

phosphates

Tees

–

~~Arosa~~

wheat

–

Avonmouth

Listed in SC 68

Clunepark

British

steel - general

72 (71)

Manchester

–

Empire Zephyr

steel

Hull

–

Stornest

general

71 (64)

Hull

–

Empire Livingstone

general

Holyhead / Manchester

–

~~Empire Plover~~

general

–

Holyhead / Liverpool

To SC 68 - did not sail
To SC 69 - did not sail
Listed in SC 70

~~Fjordheim~~

Norwegian

general

–

Avonmouth

Listed in SC 68

Montreal City

British

general

Bristol

–

~~Oilreliance~~

Adm. tanker B

–

Scapa

Listed in SC 68

Biafra

general

Cardiff

–

~~Empire Bunting~~

general

–

Liverpool

To SC 68 - did not sail
(does not show up again until SC 73)

~~Kalliopi~~

Greek

grain

–

London

To SC 68 - did not sail
Listed in SC 70

Loriga

British

general

55 (54)

Liverpool

–

~~Maja~~

Tanker B

–

Belfast / Heysham

Graiglas

linseed

London

Norwegian

palm nuts

not known
(A. Hague gives 42)

Loch Ewe

From SC 65
Returned to Halifax
Listed in SC 69

Ozark

American

general

44 (43)

Loch Ewe / Reykjavik

From HX 172

Norwegian

general

74 (72)

Liverpool

From HX 172
Sunk - See Notes

Additionally, according to notes in the Advance Sailing Telegram for Convoy SC 68, it looks like the Norwegian Spero (from SC 66) and the Panamanian Alcedo, sailing in that convoy, had initially been scheduled for Convoy SC 67 (see also HX 173). According to A. Hague, Spero did join (from Wabana), but returned to port - again, see his listing for SC 67 at ships in all SC convoys.

Notes:
Commodore was in Biafra, Vice Commodore in Clunepark
Loch Ewe Commodore in Graiglas
Clyde Commodore in Tintagel (but this ship had returned).

The diary states "36 ships were listed in this convoy, 2 were passenger vessels and went out separately, Largs Bay and Volendam. 6 were cancelled and 1 went out as an independent, D. L. Harper". (As can be seen from the table above, there were more than 6 cancelled ships). Largs Bay and Volendam do not appear to have been part of Convoy SC 67. In fact, upon checking further, I find that A. Hague has listed both these ships in Convoy NA 2 (external link), which also left Halifax for the U.K. on Jan. 30-1942, so the author of the diary who saw them leave around the same time as the SC 67 ships probably assumed that they were destined for this convoy. Note that D. L. Harper is listed in Convoy HX 173 from Halifax on Febr. 1-1942 (see also SC 58).

According to the diary, the ships departed Halifax in the following sequence (the unnamed ships are named in the Advance Sailing Telegram): At 09:55 the British freighter Biafra, "Flagship, leads convoy to sea". A few minutes later, at 09:58 the Greek Atlanticos went out followed at 10:14 by Penolver and with a few minutes between each ship - Graiglas, then a Polish freighter (this must have been Wisla), Sirehei, Tintagel (WLEW), a Norwegian freighter, then Ruth 1, Empire Leopard, Mana (IM' on stack), Empire Livingstone ('B' flag, meaning she carried explosives), Empire Zephyr, a British freighter, the Norwegian Hallanger (name on bow, grey hull, tan superstructure, with brown on top of bridge, tan stack with black border on it), Ozark (star on narrow high stack), then Mount Taurus followed by a Norwegian freighter, Empire Beaver, then a Panamanian freighter, a British freighter, then Montreal City, Lagarfoss (with lumber) and the last ship to leave at 14:00 was the British Loriga (GCLM).

The escorting Canadian Flower Class Corvette Spikenard was torpedoed and sunk by U-136 on Febr. 11 - ref. external link provided below.

The Norwegian Heina was also sunk during the passage. Follow the link to my page about this ship for more information on her loss. There were no casualties.

The convoy arrived rendezvous on Febr. 10.

A. Hague names the following escorts (extracted from this list of SC convoy escorts, received from D. Kindell; dates are European style, day/month/year):
Chilliwack - From 30/01/42 to 11/02/42
Dauphin - From 02/02/42 to 12/02/42
Dunvegan - From 30/01/42 to 02/02/42
Gentian - From 11/02/42 to 14/02/42
Hamilton - From 30/01/42 to 02/02/42
Honeysuckle - From 11/02/42 to 15/02/42
Lethbridge - From 08/02/42 to 11/02/42
Louisburg - From 02/02/42 to 11/02/42
Nipigon - From 30/01/42 to 02/02/42
Saskatoon - From 30/01/42 to 02/02/42
Shediac - From 02/02/42 to 11/02/42
Spikenard - From 02/02/42 to 10/02/42
St. Albans - From 11/02/43 to 13/02/42

Related external links:
The attack on HMCS Spikenard

Casualty list - HMCS Spikenard

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