Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The ship arrived in Halifax on 3 December for neutral inspection and spent two days in Bedford Basin awaiting refuelling supplies. [26] Though she had been given clearance to leave the port on 5 December, Imo ' s departure was delayed because her coal load did not arrive until late that afternoon.
faster ships GUS: Mediterranean to Chesapeake Bay: 21 December 1942 27 May 1945 92 slower ships HG: Gibraltar to Liverpool: 26 September 1939 19 September 1942 89 replaced by MKS convoys after Operation Torch: HX: Halifax Harbour (later New York City) to Liverpool: 16 Sept 1939 23 May 1945 377 9-knot convoys for ships of sustained speeds less ...
Convoy HX 300 was the 300th of the numbered series of World War II HX convoys of merchant ships from Halifax to Liverpool. It started its journey on 17 July 1944 and was the largest convoy of the war, comprising 166 ships.
Halifax Explosion blast cloud caused after two ships collided. Halifax Harbour is noted for many shipwrecks both in the inner and outer harbour. A few ships were sunk at the edge of the harbour approaches during World War II by German U-boats but the vast majority were claimed by harbour accidents. Mapping of the harbour revealed about 45 ...
The HX series consisted of 377 convoys, with 17,744 ships. Thirty-eight convoys were attacked (about 10 per cent), with the loss of 110 ships in convoy; sixty stragglers were sunk and 36 lost while detached or after dispersal, with losses from marine accident and other causes, for a total loss of 206 ships or about 1 per cent of the total.
Convoy HX 84 was the 84th of the numbered series of Allied North Atlantic HX convoys of merchant ships from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Bermuda to Liverpool, England, during the Battle of the Atlantic. Thirty-eight ships escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay departed from Halifax on 28 October 1940, eastbound to Liverpool.
Sackville ' s presence in Halifax is considered appropriate, as the port was an important North American convoy assembly port during the war. In September 2003, Sackville broke loose during Hurricane Juan and struck the schooner Larinda , a yacht inspired by the 1767 Boston schooner HMS Sultana , moored beside her.
Many of the original Royal Navy 18th and 19th century buildings in the Dockyard were destroyed in the 1917 Halifax Explosion; others were demolished in World War II to make way for machine shops, stores buildings and drill halls needed to man and maintain the many escort ships being commissioned during the crash expansion of the Royal Canadian ...