Convoy JW.59

Convoy JW.59

 

Departed from Liverpool August 15, 1944
Arrived Kola Inlet August 25, 1944
No. of vessels (Hague) 34
No. of vessels accounted for here

34

Vessels lost from convoy

0


Vessel
Tons
Built
Notes
BRITISH PROMISE (Br)
8,443
1942
 
CHARLES A MCALLISTER (Am)
7,176
1943
 
CHARLES DAURAY (Am)
7,176
1944
 
CLARK HOWELL (Am)
7,198
1944
 
DAVID B. JOHNSON (Am)
7,198
1944
 
EDWARD H. CROCKETT (Am)
7,176
1944
sunk in RA.60 (U-310)
EDWARD L. GRANT (Am)
7,176
1943
 
ELIJAH KELLOGG (Am)
7,176
1944
 
EMPIRE BUTTRESS (Br)
2,905
1943
 
F. T. FRELINGHUYSEN (Am)
7,176
1943
 
FORT GLENORA (Br)
7,126
1943
 
FRANK GILBRETH (Am)
7,176
1944
 
HERBRAND (Nor)
9,108
1935
 
JOHN LA FARGE (Am)
7,176
1943
 
JOSE MARTI (Am)
7,176
1943
 
JOSEPHINE SHAW LOWELL (Am)
7,176
1944
 
LEO J. DUSTER (Am)
7,176
1943
 
LUCULUS (Br)
6,546
1929
Oiler
NACELLA (Br)
8,196
1943
 
OAKLEY WOOD (Am)
7,210
1944
 
RATHLIN (Br)
1,600
1936
 
SAMANNAN (Br)
7,219
1944
 
SAMCALIA (Br)
7,219
1943
 
SAMCONSTANT (Br)
7,219
1944
 
SAMGARA (Br)
7,219
1943
 
SAMIDWAY (Br)
7,219
1943
 
SAMLOYAL (Br)
7,210
1944
 
SAMLYTH (Br)
7,210
1944
 
SAMSUVA (Br)
7,219
1944
sunk in RA.60 (U-310)
SAMTREDY (Br)
7,219
1943
 
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (Am)
7,176
1943
 
THOMAS DONALDSON (Am)
7,210
1944
sunk in JW.65 (U-968)
THOMAS H. SUMNER (Am)
7,176
1944
 
WARREN DELANO (Am)
7,210
1944
 


19 escorts were associated (at least in part) with convoy JW.59.


BLUEBELL    CAMELLIA    CAPRICE    CHARLOCK    CYGNET   
HONEYSUCKLE    KEPPEL    KITE    LOCH DUNVEGAN    MARNE   
MERMAID    METEOR    MILNE    MUSKETEER    OXLIP   
PEACOCK    STRIKER    VINDEX    WHITEHALL       
                   

Escort(s) lost or damaged:

KITE
Sunk in convoy JW-59 by U-344 on 21 August, 1944.
(222 dead and 9 survivors).


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