Activity Sheet 1 Group 1 SS English Trader movements July 1939 to January 1940
Number of Departure date Departure port Arrival port Arrival date Cargo Convoy or Independent days of travel
Cardiff, Buenos Aires, 29 July 1939 25 August 1939 Coal Independent Wales Argentina
Buenos Aires, Puerto Obligado, Grain – 28 August 1939 8 September 1939 Independent Argentina Paraguay linseed
8 September Puerto Obligado, Montevideo, 16 September Grain – Independent 1939 Paraguay Uruguay 1939 linseed
Freetown, 16 September Montevideo, Grain – Sierra Leone 5 October 1939 Independent 1939 Uruguay linseed Dakar, Senegal
Freetown, Brixham, 19 November Grain – Convoy SL7 31 October 1939 Sierra Leone Devon, England 1939 linseed Freetown–Liverpool
Diverted to London 19 November Brixham, 27 November London, England None – Ministry of Food 1939 Devon, England 1939 request Hull, England 3 December 1939 1 December Southend, – repairs complete Convoy FN46 (Hit the seabed None 1939 Essex, England on Southend–Methil 3 December 1939) 11 January 1940 Activity Sheet 1 Group 2 SS English Trader movements February to July 1940
Convoy or Number of Departure date Departure port Arrival port Arrival date Cargo Independent days of travel
Hull, Southend, 4 February Coal Convoy FS85 2 February 1940 England Essex, England 1940 Tyne–Southend
Southend, Buenos Aires, OA88GF Southend 8 February 1940 3 March 1940 Grain Essex, England Argentina OG18F Independent
Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, 28 March 1940 Unknown Grain Independent Argentina Argentina
Santa Fe, Freetown, 4 April 1940 25 April 1940 Cereals Independent Argentina Sierra Leone
Freetown, Liverpool, Convoy SL30 1 May 1940 17 May 1940 Cereals Sierra Leone England Freetown–Liverpool
Liverpool, Greenock, 30 May 1940 31 May 1940 None Independent England Clyde, Scotland
Buenos Aires, Argentina Greenock, OB171 Liverpool 17 June 1940 (Fire in hold 21 July 22 July 1940 Coal Clyde, Scotland OG34 Independent 1940) Activity Sheet 1 Group 3
SSmovements English July Trader to December 1940
Convoy or Number of days Departure date Departure port Arrival port Arrival date Cargo Independent of travel
Buenos Aires, Ibicuy, 22 July 1940 23 July 1940 Cereals Independent Argentina Argentina
Ibicuy, Santa Fe, 31 July 1940 Unknown None Independent Argentina Argentina
14 August Montevideo, Freetown, Cargo 2 September 1940 Independent 1940 Uruguay Sierra Leone cancelled
Convoy SL46 3 September Freetown, Aberdeen, 23 September Cargo Freetown– 1940 Sierra Leone Scotland (For repairs) 1940 cancelled Liverpool
27 October Aberdeen, Methil, Scotland Convoy WN25 30 October 1940 Coal 1940 Scotland (Collision in dock) Clyde–Methil
14 November Methil, Oban, 17 November Convoy EN25/1 Coal 1940 Fife, Scotland Scotland 1940 Methil–Oban
Towed into Freetown, Started with Oban, Scotland Sierra Leone 18 November Convoy OB245 On 5 December 1940, (Broken rudder – in 19 December 1940 Coal 1940 Liverpool and her rudder came off. repair for 4 weeks) then dispersed Activity Sheet 1 Group 4 SS English Trader movements February to July 1941 Number of Departure date Departure port Arrival port Arrival date Cargo Convoy or Independent days of travel
20 February Freetown, Buenos Aires, 29 March 1941 Coal Independent 1941 Sierra Leone Argentina
Buenos Aires, Rosario, 21 April 1941 22 April 1941 Coal Independent Argentina Argentina
Rosario, Montevideo, 26 April 1941 Unknown Wheat Independent Argentina Uruguay
Montevideo, Freetown, 29 April 1941 18 May 1941 Wheat Independent Uruguay Sierra Leone
Freetown, Oban, Convoy SL76 30 May 1941 21 June 1941 Wheat Sierra Leone Scotland Freetown–Liverpool
Oban, Methil, Convoy WN144 23 June 1941 25 June 1941 Wheat Scotland Fife, Scotland Oban–Methil
Methil, Oban, Convoy EC42 7 July 1941 10 July 1941 None Fife, Scotland Scotland Southend–Clyde Activity Sheet 1 Group 5 SS English Trader movements July to October 1941Number of days Departure date Departure port Arrival port Arrival date Cargo Convoy or Independent of travel
OB346 Oban, Nuevitas, 15 July 1941 5 August 1941 None Liverpool–Freetown Scotland Cuba SL Independent
Nuevitas, Havana, 6 August 1941 23 August 1941 Sugar Independent Cuba Cuba
Sydney, Havana, 1 September 1941 Cape Breton, 9 September 1941 Sugar Independent Cuba Canada Convoy SC44 Sydney, Loch Ewe, 11 September 1941 27 September 1941 Sugar Sydney, Cape Breton, Canada Scotland Cape Breton–Liverpool
Methil, Convoy WN186 28 September 1941 Unknown 30 September 1941 Sugar Fife, Scotland Oban–Methil
Methil, Southend, Convoy FS610 2 October 1941 4 October 1941 Sugar Fife, Scotland Essex, England Methil–Southend
6 October 1941 London London 23 October 1941 None Repairs
Convoy EC90 Southend– Wrecked Clyde then Convoy OS11 Southend, Hammonds Knoll, Mixed Liverpool–Freetown 25 October 1941 26 October 1941 Essex, England 20 miles off Cargo then onto Table Bay, Cromer South Africa, then Mombasa