Convoy RA.62

Convoy RA.62

 

Departed from Kola Inlet December 10, 1944
Arrived Loch Ewe December 19, 1944
No. of vessels (Hague) 29
No. of vessels accounted for here

29

Vessels lost from convoy

0

Note: HMS CASSANDRA was damaged by U-365 on December 11 and returned to Murmansk.
More details of this convoy may be found here and here.


Vessel
Tons
Built
Notes
ABNER NASH (Am)
7,177
1942
 
ANDREW W. PRESTON (Am)
7,247
1944
 
BENJAMIN SCHLESINGER (Am)
7,176
1944
 
COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON (Am)
7,177
1942
 
DOLABELLA (Br)
8,142
1939
 
DONALD W BAIN (Am)
7,200
1944
 
ELEAZAR LORD (Am)
7,247
1944
 
ELOY ALFARO (Am)
7,176
1944
 
FORT CREVECOEUR (Br)
7,191
1943
 
FORT ROMAINE (Br)
7,173
1943
 
FORT YUKON (Br)
7,153
1943
 
HAROLD L WINSLOW (Am)
7,176
1943
 
HENRY ADAMS (Am)
7,212
1944
 
JAMES M. GILLIS (Am)
7,176
1943
 
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS (Am)
7,176
1943
 
JOYCE KILMER (Am)
7,176
1943
 
KEITH PALMER (Am)
7,244
1944
 
LAURELWOOD (Br)
7,347
1929
Oiler
LAWRENCE J BRENGLE (Am)
7,209
1944
 
LUCULUS (Br)
6,546
1929
Oiler
MARATHON (Nor)
7,208
1930
 
NICHOLAS BIDDLE (Am)
7,191
1942
 
PARK BENJAMIN (Am)
7,176
1944
 
RATHLIN (Br)
1,600
1936
 
SAN VENANCIO (Br)
8,152
1942
 
STAGE DOOR CANTEEN (Am)
7,176
1943
 
WILLIAM PEPPER (Am)
7,176
1943
 
WILLIAM WHEELWRIGHT (Am)
7,176
1944
 
WINFRED L. SMITH (Am)
7,191
1943
 


32 escorts were associated (at least in part) with convoy RA.62.


ALLINGTON CASTLE    BAHAMAS    BAMBOROUGH CASTLE    BELLONA    BULLDOG   
CAESAR    CAMBRIAN    CAMPANIA    CAPRICE    CASSANDRA   
CYGNET    EGLANTINE    LAPWING    LARK    LOCH ALVIE   
MONNOW    MOUNSEY    NAIRANA    NENE    OBEDIENT   
OFFA    ONSLAUGHT    ONSLOW    ORIBI    ORWELL   
PORT COLBORNE    SOMALILAND    ST. JOHN    STORMONT    TAVY   
TORTOLA    TUNSBERG CASTLE               
                   

Escort(s) lost or damaged:

CASSANDRA
Damaged by U-365 on December 11 in convoy RA-62
Returned to Murmansk.

TUNSBERG CASTLE
Mined on 12 December 1944 from convoy RA-62 (5 dead and 115? survivors).


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