Convoy JW.51B

Convoy JW.51B

 

Departed from Liverpool December 22, 1942
Arrived Kola Inlet January 4, 1943
No. of vessels (Hague) 15
No. of vessels accounted for here

15

Vessels lost from convoy

1


Vessel
Tons
Built
Notes
BALLOT (Pan)
6,131
1922
sunk in JW.51B (wrecked)
CALOBRE (Pan)
6,891
1919
 
CHESTER VALLEY (Am)
5,078
1919
 
DALDORCH (Br)
5,571
1930
  Op. FB (returned to Iceland)
DOVER HILL (Br)
5,815
1918
 
EMPIRE ARCHER (Br)
7,031
1942
 
EMPIRE EMERALD (Br)
8,032
1941
 
EXECUTIVE (Am)
4,978
1920
sunk in RA.53 (U-255)
JEFFERSON MYERS (Am)
7,582
1920
 
JOHN H. B. LATROBE (Am)
7,191
1942
  Op. FB (returned to Iceland)
PONTFIELD (Br)
8,319
1940
 
PUERTO RICAN (Am)
6,076
1919
sunk in RA.53 (U-586)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (Am)
7,176
1942
 
VERMONT (Am)
5,670
1919
 
YORKMAR (Am)
5,612
1919
 


25 escorts were associated (at least in part) with convoy JW.51B.


ACHATES    ANSON    BLANKNEY    BRAMBLE    BULLDOG   
CHIDDINGFOLD    CUMBERLAND    FORESTER    HYDERABAD    ICARUS   
IMPULSIVE    JAMAICA    LEDBURY    MATCHLESS    NORTHERN GEM   
OBDURATE    OBEDIENT    ONSLOW    OPPORTUNE    ORIBI   
ORWELL    RHODODENDRON    SEAGULL    SHEFFIELD    VIZALMA   
                   
                   

Escort(s) lost or damaged:

ACHATES
Sunk in JW-51B by German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper on 31 Dec, 1942.
(113 dead and 80 survivors).

BRAMBLE
Sunk by the German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt on 31 December 1942 in convoy JW-51B
(121 dead ?survivors).

OBDURATE
Damaged in convoy JW-51B by U-360 on 25 Jan, 1944.


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