Convoy SL.118

 

Depart Freetown
August 4, 1942
Arrived Liverpool

August 26, 1942

No. of vessels (Hague) 34
No. of vessels accounted for here

35 + 2 did not sail + 5 escort vessels

Vessels lost from convoy

4
BALINGKAR
CITY OF MANILA
HATARANA
TRITON
HMS CHESHIRE (damaged by U-214)

Note: Form A1 not available for this convoy so Pendant Numbers are not known .

Pdt
Vessel
Cargo
From
To
72
ALDERAMIN (Du)
W.A.Produce/Mails 1/Pass 4
Lagos
Loch Ewe
73
ATLANTIC CITY
Cotton/Rubber/Pass 2
Alexandria/Aden 
Manchester
62
BALINGKAR (Du)
Gen.
Laurenco Marques
Mersey
24
BARON DUNMORE
Iron Ore
Rio de Janeiro
Loch Ewe
 
BENDORAN
DID NOT SAIL
Returned Freetown
 
22
CITY OF DERBY
Gen.
Marmagoa/S.Africa
Loch Ewe
92
CITY OF HEREFORD
Gen./Mails 430
Port Sudan/S.Africa  
Mersey
 
CITY OF MANILA
Pig Iron/Groundnuts/Gen.
Bombay/Kalabar 
Clyde
33
CORABELLA
W.A.Produce
Takoradi 
Workington
32
CORDILLERA
Frozen meat
Rio Gallegos/Montevideo
Mersey
61
DEFOE
Gen./Mails 2
Buenos Aires/Santos  
Belfast
 
DUKE OF ATHENS
Wheat
Geraldton 
Glasgow
74
EMPIRE BAXTER
Gen./Mails 479
Colombo 
Belfast
83
EMPIRE VOICE
Gen./Mails 1200/Pss 1
Bombay
Loch Ewe
71
FRESNO STAR
Frozen meat
Buenos Aires  
Mersey
54
GLENNIFER
Gen./Mails 10/Pass 1
Newcastle/Sydney 
Mersey
23
GLENPARK
Linseed
Santa Fe  
Loch Ewe
 
GOVERNOR
Grain
Albany
Mersey
41
HATARANA
Gen.
Calcutta/Karachi 
Glasgow
 
HMS CHESHIRE
ESCORT
 
 
 
HMS FOLKESTONE
ESCORT
 
 
 
HMS GORLESTON
ESCORT
 
 
 
HMS PENSTEMON
ESCORT
 
 
 
HMS WELLINGTON
ESCORT
 
 
 
INCOMATI
W.A.Produce/Mails 169/Pass 52
Lagos 
Mersey
31
LALANDE
Gen.
Rio Grande/Rio de Janeiro  
Mersey
14
LIBRARIAN
W.A.Produce/Pass 12
Porcados
Loch Ewe
12
LULWORTH HILL
Gen.
Cochin 
Loch Ewe
53
LYCAON
Gen./Mails 26/Pass 6
Port Pirie/River Plate  
Glasgow
13
NAIRUNG
Tea/Tobacco/Cotton
Cochin 
Loch Ewe
 
NOLISMENT
DID NOT SAIL
Put into Bathurst
  
11
NURANI
Gen.
Bombay/Laurenco Marques
Loch Ewe
91
RABY CASTLE
Gen.
Mombassa.Beira 
Mersey
63
ROSEWOOD
OILER
Freetown
Clyde
81
SANDOWN CASTLE
Gen./Mails 36
Mombassa 
Mersey
42
SILVERSANDAL
W.A.Produce/Mails 12/Pass 2
Capetown/W.Africa 
Mersey
34
SKELDERGATE
Iron Ore
Pepel 
Loch Ewe
82
TEKOA
Frozen meat
Australia/Wellington/Napier
Glasgow
64
TORDENE
Gen.
Rosario/Montevideo
Belfast
21
TRITON (Nor)
Gen./Mails 81/Pass 1
Sydney
Belfast
93
UMARIA
Gen.
Karachi 
Mersey