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Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy
Posted by: Oliver Lörscher ()
Date: April 23, 2011 09:59AM

Hi Tom,

well, troop convoy H.X. 40 left New York (!) on the evening of July 4th, 1918, consisting of 13 ships, british auxiliary cruiser HMS VICTORIAN and armored cruiser USS PUEBLO. PUEBLO returned to New York on July 15th.

One of the ships later left the convoy for Bordeaux while another one joined at sea.

The destroyer escort for the North Channel and Irish Sea was met on July 16th at 6 a.m. and on July 17th at 4 a.m. off the Maidens (North Channel) 5 ships, 3 destroyers and 1 Sloop were detached to Glasgow.

The remainder of the convoy, including 36.000 troops (!) reached Liverpool safely on July 17th, 6.30 p.m.

Source: The National Archives, Kew, London, file No. ADM 137/2657, convoys H.X. etc.


So, no ship torpedoed in this convoy and no U-boat sunk! This troop convoys (H.X. ..) first departed from Halifax, N.S., but in May 1918 that was changed to New York.

Oliver

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U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy TomM 04/23/2011 06:05AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy TomM 04/23/2011 06:10AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Oliver Lörscher 04/23/2011 09:59AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy TomM 04/23/2011 08:00PM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Oliver Lörscher 04/26/2011 09:18PM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy TomM 05/07/2011 04:42AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Oliver Lörscher 05/08/2011 08:55AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy TomM 05/09/2011 04:24AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Oliver Lörscher 05/09/2011 06:48AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Felix C 08/16/2014 11:44PM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Oliver Lörscher 08/19/2014 08:41PM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Felix C 08/20/2014 12:03AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Oliver Lörscher 08/23/2014 10:46AM
Re: U-boats that attacked my Great uncles convoy Deryck Swetnam 05/11/2011 10:56AM
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