Convoy HX 126

The convoy HX 126 was an allied convoy of the HX convoy series to supply Great Britain during World War II . He left Halifax on May 10, 1941 and arrived in Liverpool on May 28 . The Allies lost nine cargo ships with 54,451 GRT to German submarines , while there were no losses on the German side. This made the HX 126 one of the HX convoys with the most losses.

Composition and securing

The convoy HX 126 consisted of 37 cargo ships. On May 10, 1941, they left Halifax ( Lage ) in Canada for Liverpool ( Lage ). The convoy's commodore was Rear Admiral FB Watson, who had embarked on the Hindustan . From the departure until May 20, only the British auxiliary cruiser Aurania and the submarine Tribune secured the convoy. As of May 20, a local escort consisting of the British destroyers Burnham and Burwell , the flotilla leader Malcom , the corvettes Arabis , Heliotrope and Mallow , and the sloop Verbena also took over the security. More security ships followed in the next few days. 44.63 -63.5453.44 -3.04

Surname	flag	Measurement in GRT	Whereabouts
Athelprincess	United Kingdom United Kingdom	8,882
Barnby	United Kingdom United Kingdom	4,813	sunk by U 111 on May 22nd ( Lage ) 60.5 -34.2
Baron Carnegie	United Kingdom United Kingdom	3,178
Bente Maersk	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,722
British Freedom	United Kingdom United Kingdom	6,985
British Security	United Kingdom United Kingdom	8,470	sunk by U 556 on May 20th ( Lage ) 57.466667 -41.116667
British Splendor	United Kingdom United Kingdom	7.138
Cockapon set	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,995	sunk by U 556 on May 20th ( Lage ) 57.466667 -41.116667
Darlington Court	United Kingdom United Kingdom	4,974	sunk by U 556 on May 20th ( Lage ) 57.466666 -41.116666
Dorelian	United Kingdom United Kingdom	6,431
Eemland	Netherlands Netherlands	4,188
Elusa	Netherlands Netherlands	6.235	sunk by U 93 on May 21 ( Lage ) 59 -38.083333
Empire kudu	United Kingdom United Kingdom	6,622
Gretavale	United Kingdom United Kingdom	4,586
Hada County	Norway Norway	4,853
Harpagus	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,173	sunk by U 109 on May 20th
Havsten	Norway Norway	6.161
Hindustan	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,245
John Pedersen	Norway Norway	6.128	sunk by U 94 on May 20th ( Lage ) 57 -41
Karabagh	United Kingdom United Kingdom	6,427
Marconi	United Kingdom United Kingdom	7,402	sunk by U 98 on May 21 ( Lage ) 58 -41
Mornings	Norway Norway	7.093
Nicoya	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,364
Norman Monarch	United Kingdom United Kingdom	4,718	sunk by U 94 on May 20th ( Lage ) 56.783333 -40.916667
Regent panther	United Kingdom United Kingdom	9,556
Ribera	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,559
Rosewood	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,989
Rothermere	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,356	sunk by U 98 on May 20th ( Lage ) 57.8 -41.6
Salando	Netherlands Netherlands	5,272
Tongariro	United Kingdom United Kingdom	8,720
Toward	United Kingdom United Kingdom	1,571
Westport	United Kingdom United Kingdom	5,665
Winona County	United Kingdom United Kingdom	6.159

course

In the late afternoon of May 19, the German submarine U 94 sighted the convoy, which at that time was only secured by the British auxiliary cruiser Aurania and the British submarine Tribune . After other German submarines had reached the convoy due to the direction finding signals from U 94 , U 94 attacked the Norman Monarch (4,718 GRT), which was loaded with grain, on May 20 and sank her. All 48 crew members could be saved. After briefly losing contact with the convoy, U 556 found it again around noon and sank the Darlington Court (4,974 GRT) with a cargo of wheat, the tanker British Security (8,470 BRT) with a gasoline cargo and the Cockaponset (5,995 BRT) with a steel cargo. The entire 53-man crew of the tanker lost their lives, while 12 of 37 on Darlington Court and the entire crew of the Cockapenset were saved. On the evening of May 20, U 94 , U 98 , U 109 and U 111 had approached and also attacked. U 98 sank the freighter Rothermere (5,356), losing 22 sailors, who was traveling with a load of steel and paper. U 94 torpedoed the Norwegian tanker John Pedersen (6128 GRT), which, in addition to its cargo of fuel and oil, took 22 crew members with it into the depths. U 109 hit and sank the freighter Harpagus (5,173 GRT) that had loaded wheat. Of the 90 men on board (48 of them rescued from the Norman Monarch ), 58 did not survive the sinking. In the early morning hours of May 21, U 98 sank the British freighter Marconi (7,402 GRT) and U 93 sank the Dutch tanker Elusa (6,235). In the meantime, several British security vehicles had reached the convoy. Until May 22nd, the submarines U 46 , U 66 , U 74 , U 94 and U 557 came up to the convoy, which had since been dispersed. U 111 managed to sink the British Barnby (4,813 GRT) with a load of flour. Except for one, the entire crew was rescued. After that, the submarines' contact with the convoy broke off. The convoy arrived in Liverpool on May 28th. A total of nine ships with 54,451 GRT were sunk.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronik des Maritime War 1939–1945, May 1941 , accessed on May 2, 2020.
^ Arnold Hague Convoy Database , accessed May 2, 2020.
^ Clay Blair : Der U-Boot-Krieg, Die Jäger 1939-1942, Wilhelm Heine Verlag , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X , pp. 346-347.

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

[Rohwer-1] Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronik des Maritime War 1939–1945, May 1941 , accessed on May 2, 2020.

[2] Arnold Hague Convoy Database , accessed May 2, 2020.

[BlairS346-3] Clay Blair : Der U-Boot-Krieg, Die Jäger 1939-1942, Wilhelm Heine Verlag , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X , pp. 346-347.


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