Convoy SC 87 - warsailors.com (original) (raw)
CONVOY SC 87 (Will be updated - please compare with A. Hague's listing for this convoy at ships in all SC convoys. See also SC escorts).
Departed Sydney, C.B. on June 12-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 27th.
(Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 41 ships)
Transcribed from several documents received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew. See also Convoy ON 92. |
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Ship | Nationality | Cargo | Destination | Remarks |
King Frederick | British | wheat | Liverpool | From SC 86 |
El Lago | Panamanian | general | Clyde f. o. | Detached for Iceland (See also RU 29) |
Wichita Falls | American | coal - coke | Iceland | – |
Alamo | " | general | Iceland | – |
Malantic | " | general | Iceland | – |
Aquila | " | Army stores | Iceland | – |
Clearpool | British | grain | London | – |
Lisbeth | Norwegian | steel - pulp | Liverpool | – |
Morska Wola | Polish | general | Manchester | From SC 86 |
Empire Razorbill | British | steel - cotton | Swansea | (See also SC 82) |
Lagarto | " | tin - nitrate - cotton | Liverpool | – |
Velox | Norwegian | cotton - steel | Newport | – |
Selfoss | Icelandic | lumber - trucks | Reykjavik | – |
Ulla | Danish / MOWT 1940 | bauxite | Manchester | – |
Empire Wolfe | British | flour - trucks | Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton) | – |
Empire Porpoise | " | general - trucks | Liverpool | – |
Llanashe | " | sugar | Liverpool | – |
Lars Kruse | Danish / MOWT 1940 | lumber | London | From SC 86 |
British | lumber | Belfast | To SC 88 - returned (lost convoy in fog) Listed in SC 89 | |
Vulcanus | Dutch | sugar | Greenock | – |
Selvik | Norwegian | lumber | Milford Haven f. o. (Southampton) | – |
American | stores - personnel | Iceland | Listed in HX 194 | |
Alresford | British | lumber | Manchester | – |
Albert L. Ellsworth | Norwegian | Adm. tanker B | Hvalfjord | – |
Barberrys | British | general - mail 1582 | Glasgow | From SC 86 |
Katla | Icelandic | general | Iceland | – |
Narbo | American | general | Belfast Dock | – |
Dimitrios Inglessis | Greek | wheat | London | (See also SC 62) |
Empire Flame | British | general | Manchester | – |
Borgholm | Norwegian | lumber | Boston | – |
Saltersgate | British | grain - trucks | Leith | – |
Titanian | Norwegian | grain - trucks | Barry Dock | – |
Henrik Ibsen | " | steel - pulp | Manchester | – |
Odysseus | Greek | grain - trucks | Hull | – |
Snar | Norwegian | lumber | London | – |
Lornaston | British | grain | London | – |
Greek | grain | Glasgow | Listed in SC 88 | |
Norwegian | lumber | Garston | Joined SC 88 - put into St. John's w/boiler trouble Listed in WSC 89 | |
Swedish | wood pulp | London | Listed in SC 88 | |
British | grain | Hull | Listed in SC 88 | |
Norwegian | lumber | Belfast Dock | Listed in SC 88 | |
Dutch | steel - timber | London | Listed in SC 88 | |
Panamanian | none given | Not for U.K. | See also HX 194 | |
American | general - gasoline | Iceland | Listed in SC 89 | |
Panamanian | grain | London | Listed in SC 88 | |
American | general - gasoline | Iceland | Listed in SC 89 | |
" | general - gasoline | Iceland | Listed in SC 89 | |
British | general | Mersey | Listed in SC 88 | |
American | none given | Iceland | Listed in SC 89 | |
British | general | Newport | Listed in SC 88 | |
Norwegian | steel | Hull | (Ex Empire Eagle) Listed in SC 88 | |
Kaweah | American | Tanker B | Iceland | – |
Ragnhild | Norwegian | flour - general | Swansea (Southampton) | (Ex Empire Carey) |
Joining from Newfoundland (Convoy WSC 87) | ||||
Widestone | British | iron ore | Middlesbrough | From SC 86 |
Pendeen | " | iron ore | Middlesbrough | – |
Culebra | Panamanian | iron ore | Cardiff | – |
Greek | iron ore | Newport | Listed in WSC 88 | |
Dutch | nitrates | London | Listed in WSC 88 | |
British | steel scrap - wood pulp | Clyde f. o. | To WSC 88 - did not sail Listed in WSC 89 | |
Penrose | British | zinc concentrates | Avonmouth | – |
Pacific | " | timber | Ardrossan | – |
Notes:
Commodore was in Lagarto, Vice Commodore in Kaweah, Rear Commodore in Clearpool.
Clyde Commodore: In King Frederick.
Belfast Commodore: In Lornaston.
To the next SC convoy in my list SC 88
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