Convoy RA.56

Convoy RA.56

 

Departed from Kola Inlet February 3, 1944
Arrived Loch Ewe February 11, 1944
No. of vessels (Hague) 39
No. of vessels accounted for here

39

Vessels lost from convoy

0

Note: More details of this convoy may be found here.


Vessel
Tons
Built
Notes
BRITISH STATESMAN (Br)
6,991
1923
 
BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON (Am)
7,176
1942
 
CARDINAL GIBBONS (Am)
7,191
1942
 
COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON (Am)
7,177
1942
 
DANIEL WILLARD (Am)
7,200
1942
 
EMPIRE ARCHER (Br)
7,031
1942
 
EMPIRE LIONEL (Br)
7,030
1942
 
EMPIRE PICKWICK (Br)
7,068
1943
 
EUGENE FIELD (Am)
7,176
1943
 
FORT ASTORIA (Br)
7,189
1943
 
FORT HALL (Br)
7,157
1943
 
FORT KULLYSPELL (Br)
7,190
1943
 
FORT MISSANABIE (Br)
7,147
1943
 
FORT NAKASLEY (Br)
7,100
1943
 
FORT THOMPSON (Br)
7,134
1942
 
FORT VERCHERES (Br)
7,122
1942
 
GEORGE WEEMS (Am)
7,191
1942
 
HAROLD L WINSLOW (Am)
7,176
1943
 
HORACE GRAY (Am)
7,200
1943
sunk in JW.63 (U-711 - joining RA.64))
JAMES A FARRELL (Am)
7,176
1943
 
JAMES WOODROW (Am)
7,200
1942
 
JOHN FITCH (Am)
7,181
1942
 
JOHN J. ABEL (Am)
7,191
1943
 
JOHN VINING (Am)
7,191
1942
 
JOHN WANAMAKER (Am)
7,176
1943
 
LEWIS EMERY JR (Am)
7,176
1943
 
NOREG (Nor)
7,605
1931
 
NORLYS (Pan)
9,892
1936
 
OCEAN GYPSY (Br)
7,176
1942
 
OCEAN MESSENGER (Br)
7,178
1942
 
OCEAN PRIDE (Br)
7,173
1942
 
OCEAN VALOUR (Br)
7,174
1942
 
OCEAN VICEROY (Br)
7,174
1942
 
PHILIP LIVINGSTON (Am)
7,176
1942
 
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN (Am)
7,176
1943
 
THISTLEDALE (Br)
7,241
1942
 
THOMAS SCOTT (Am)
7,176
1942
sunk in RA.64 (U-968)
THOMAS U. WALTER (Am)
7,176
1943
 
WILL ROGERS (Am)
7,200
1942
 


33 escorts were associated (at least in part) with convoy RA.56.


BERMUDA    BERWICK    BORAGE    COCKATRICE    CYGNET   
DIANELLA    GLEANER    HURON    INCONSTANT    LOYALTY   
MAHRATTA    METEOR    MILNE    MUSKETEER    OBEDIENT   
OFFA    OPPORTUNE    OXLIP    POPPY    RATTLESNAKE   
READY    RHODODENDRON    SAVAGE    SCOURGE    SPEEDWELL   
STORD    SWIFT    VENUS    VERULAM    VIGILANT   
WALLFLOWER    WESTCOTT    WRESTLER           
                   
                   

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