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Hi Cpt. Thomas. Not really sure I understand these, but I was wondering what a convoy number would be and where it might have come from if it is in Grid BE and heading toward the UK if it was October 1943 on a course ENE. |
Just click on the individual convoy. How about thisone.
CONVOY CU 5
Departed New York on Oct. 13-1943 and arrived Liverpool on the 24th.
Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" agrees with 19 ships in this convoy.
Transcribed from a document received from Tony Cooper - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.
All these ships were tankers, except Shooting Star, and they were all American.
CU 1 through CU 4 had departure port Curacao for Liverpool.
CU 5 started out from New York City to Liverpool.
CU 6 originated in Curacao again.
The rest of the CU series - CU 7 through CU 73 - departed from New York City.
For more info on the CU convoys, please see my page about CU 2.
Ship
Destination
Appomattox
Bowling / Clyde
Caribbean
Avonmouth
Charlestown
Avonmouth
Chickamauga
Bromborough / Clyde
Colorado
Ellesmere / Swansea
Cross Keys
Avonmouth / Belfast Dock
Dartmouth
Swansea
Esso Wilmington
Clyde / Swansea
Kenesaw Mountain
Avonmouth / Belfast Dock
Oklahoma
Ellesmere Port
Sachem
Avonmouth
San Antonio
Bromborough / Ellesmere Port
Seven Pines
Swansea / Clyde
Shabonee
Swansea / Clyde
Virginia
Avonmouth
Birch Coulie
Clyde
Esso Buffalo
Mersey / Ellesmere & Stanlow
Esso Rochester
Clyde / Mersey
Shooting Star
Liverpool
w/refrig. & general