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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

The following are listed on the same document, but these ships may, in fact, have joined from New York (see Norheim).

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

And Rescue Vessel Goodwin - see Notes below.