Convoy HX 275 - warsailors.com
CONVOY HX 275
Departed New York on Jan. 13-1944 and arrived Liverpool on the 28th.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" gives 62 ships in this convoy.
Transcribed from several documents received from Roger Griffiths - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.
The ships are listed in the order in which they appear on the various documents.
Crossed out ships did not sail, underlined ships returned to port.
A 1 form is not available and, therefore, the station numbers are not known.
For info, some of the ships in this convoy are also listed in the westbound Convoy ON 212.
Also, note that quie a few of them later returned to the U.S. with Convoy ON 224 in Febr.-1944.
See also Convoy JW 58 to Murmansk, and the returning RA 59, as well as JW 57, Febr. 20, and the returning RA 58 on this external site.
Ship
Nationality
Cargo
Destination
Remarks
Port Fremantle
British
refrig. - general
Liverpool
–
Naranio
"
Tanker W
Belfast / Dublin
–
Daphnella
"
Tanker W
Clyde f. o.
From HX 274
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
(external link above)
Settler
"
general
London
To HX 276 - did not sail
Sailed in HX 277
Chesapeake
"
Tanker B
Clyde
Returned to New York
Sailed in HX 277
Samuel Bakke
Norwegian
general
Liverpool
–
Curacao
Dutch
general
Liverpool
–
Bralanta
Norwegian
Tanker B
Clyde / Stanlow
–
Fjordaas
"
Tanker B
Dingle
From HX 274
Returned to New York
listed in HX 278, Febr. 5
Ganymedes
Dutch
general
London
–
Fagerfjell
Norwegian
Admiralty tanker W
Londonderry
–
Fernmoor
"
general
Liverpool
–
Thomas F. Cunningham
American
Tanker B
Milford Haven / Portland
–
James Rumsey
"
general
Liverpool
From HX 274
John E. Ward
"
general
London
From HX 274
Robert Battey
"
general
London
From HX 274
Edwin L. Godkin
"
general
London / Liverpool
From HX 274
William Moultrie
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Marie M. Meloney
"
general
Clyde f. o.
From HX 274
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
(external link above)
John Stevenson
"
general
Clyde f. o.
From HX 274
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
Henry B. Brown
"
general
Clyde f. o.
From HX 274
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
George W. Childs
"
general
Clyde f. o.
From HX 274
Josiah Nelson Cushing
"
general
Newport
From HX 274
Jedediah S. Smith
"
general
Liverpool
From HX 274
Joshua B. Lippincott
"
general
Glasgow
From HX 274
Charles D. Poston
"
general
Manchester
From HX 274
Wilson P. Hunt
"
general
Liverpool
From HX 274
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian
general
Belfast Dock / Liverpool
From HX 274
Ex. Am. Francis Nash
see this page
Charles A. Dana
American
general
London
From HX 274
Charles Willson Peale
"
general
Cardiff
From HX 274
Howell E. Jackson
"
general
Liverpool
–
Waigstill Avery
"
general
Swansea
–
Robert Newell
"
general
Milford Haven / Southampton
From HX 274
Henry M. Rice
"
general
Mersey / Cardiff
–
Clara Barton
"
general
Mersey / Swansea
–
Ezra Weston
"
general
Mersey / Newport
–
Henry W. Grady
"
general
Mersey / Swansea
–
Francis Asbury
"
general
Mersey / Milford Haven / Plymouth
–
F. J. Luckenbach
"
general
London
Put into Halifax
To HX 276 - did not sail
Joined HX 277 - into Ponta Delgada Febr. 11
Sam Houston II
"
general
Belfast Dock / hull
–
Schoharie
"
general
Glasgow
–
Frank R. Stockton
"
general
Manchester
–
Pierre Gibault
"
general
Belfast Dock / London
–
Eugene E. O'Donnell
"
general
Manchester
–
Casimir Pulaski
"
general
Mersey / Avonmouth
–
William H. Webb
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
Charles M. Schwab
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
Julien Poydras
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Edward Sparrow
"
general
Clyde f. o.
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
F. T. Frelinghuysen
"
general
Clyde f. o.
–
Charles Morgan
"
general
Liverpool
–
Arthur M. Huddell
"
general
London
–
John F. Appleby
"
general
Mersey f. o.
Sailed in HX 276
Frederic Remington
"
general
Barry Roads f. o.
Sailed in HX 276
Ameriki
Greek
general
Belfast Dock / Liverpool
–
Thomas J. Jarvis
American
general
Immingham
–
Robt M. Lafollette
"
general
Mersey f. o.
Joining from Halifax - Sailed Jan. 15
Elihu Root
American
grain - general
Hull
Sailed in HX 276
Lucy Stone
"
general
Leith Dock
–
Corrales
British
meats - metal - general
Bristol
–
Empire MacKay
"
Tanker B
Clyde
–
Duala
Norwegian
meats - general
Liverpool
–
George S. Wasson
American
grain - general
Mersey / Avonmouth
Joshua W. Alexander
"
general
Clyde
From HX 274
Sailed in HX 276
Later joined JW 57 Febr. 20
George Westinghouse
"
general
Liverpool
–
Ignace Paderewski
"
general
Avonmouth
–
Roger Williams
"
grain - general
Avonmouth
–
Tungsha
Norwegian
general - mail
Liverpool
Joined HX 276 - returned to port
Listed in HX 279
Westmount Park
British
general
London
–
Rapana
"
Tanker B
Clyde
Alexander Hamilton
American
general - 3 passengers
London
British Promise
British
Tanker W
Grangemouth
–
Norheim
Norwegian
Tanker W
Avonmouth
–
Marina Raskova
American
general - alcohol
Mersey
Returned to New York
Sailed in HX 276