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️Thu Jan 30 2042

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	83	Mersey	From SC 66 Returned to Halifax (unable to maintain speed) Sailed in SC 70
Brynymor	British	nitrate of soda	82	Newport	–
Sirehei	Norwegian	steel - pulp	33 (32)	Manchester	–
Lagarfoss	Icelandic	general	34 (33)	Loch Ewe / Reykjavik	–
Titanian	Norwegian	grain	22	Leith	–
Empire Leopard	British	general	12	Tyne	From SC 66
Empire Beaver	"	general	62	Holyhead / Mersey	From SC 66 Returned to Halifax (rudder malfunction?) Listed in SC 70 (became Norw. Norhauk)
Bridgepool	"	grain	–	Hull	Listed in SC 68
Wisla	Polish	general	52	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	63	Clyde / N. Russia	From HX 171 Returned to Halifax Listed in SC 70 (Later joined Convoy PQ 13, returned w/QP 10).
Tintagel	American	general	31	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	From SC 66 Listed in SC 68
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	81	Milford / Southampton	–
Mount Taurus	Greek	grain	24	London	From SC 66
Colytto	Dutch	iron ore	–	Barrow	Listed in SC 68
Hallanger	Norwegian	Adm. tanker B (FFO)	42 (41)	Clyde	–
Anneberg	Finnish / MoWT 1941	pulp wood	–	Manchester	Listed in SC 70
Dean Emery	Panamanian	Tanker B	–	Ardrossan	(See SC 77)
Gallant Fox	"	general	–	Clyde / N. Russia	Listed in SC 68 (Later joined Convoy PQ 13, returned w/QP 11)
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
Ruth I	Norwegian	phosphates	23	Tees	–
Arosa	"	wheat	–	Avonmouth	Listed in SC 68
Clunepark	British	steel - general	72 (71)	Manchester	–
Empire Zephyr	"	steel	11	Hull	–
Stornest	"	general	71 (64)	Hull	–
Empire Livingstone	"	general	61	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	84	Bristol	–
Oilreliance	"	Adm. tanker B	–	Scapa	Listed in SC 68
Biafra	"	general	51	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	Listed in HX 174
Graiglas	"	linseed	21	London	From HX 172
Tore Jarl	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
Heina	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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