Convoy TAG 19 was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the second World War. It was the 19th of the numbered TAG Convoys from Trinidad and Aruba to Guantánamo.[1] The convoy was found on the night of 5–6 November 1942 by U-508. Kapitänleutnant Georg Staats (Knight's Cross) sank two ships from the convoy on 7 November in two approaches aboard U-508.[2]
Ships in the convoy
| Name[3]
|
Flag
|
Tonnage (GRT)
|
Notes
|
| Afghanistan (1940)
|
 United Kingdom
|
6,992
|
|
| Alar (1939)
|
 Norway
|
9,430
|
|
| Baalbeck (1937)
|
Norway
|
2,160
|
|
| Baldbutte (1919)
|
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|
6,295
|
Curaçao to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Baron Maclay (1924)
|
United Kingdom
|
6,317
|
|
| Britamsea (1939)
|
Norway
|
8,238
|
|
| Courageous (1918)
|
United States
|
7,573
|
|
| Dunboyne (1919)
|
United States
|
3,515
|
Did not sail
|
| Empire Airman II (1942)
|
United Kingdom
|
9,813
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Empire Metal (1942)
|
 Royal Navy
|
8,201
|
Curaçao to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Empire Wordsworth (1942)
|
United Kingdom
|
9,891
|
Curaçao to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Fenja (1939)
|
Norway
|
8,268
|
|
| Geo W Mcknight (1933)
|
United Kingdom
|
12,502
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Gulfking (1921)
|
United States
|
6,561
|
Curaçao to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Hanley (1920)
|
United States
|
7,583
|
|
| Lindenhall (1937)
|
United Kingdom
|
5,248
|
Sunk by U-508[4]
|
| Lord Cochrane (1934)
|
United Kingdom
|
4,157
|
|
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1942)
|
United States
|
7,176
|
Sunk by U-508[5]
|
| Ocean Peace (1942)
|
United Kingdom
|
7,173
|
|
| Otina (1938)
|
United Kingdom
|
6,217
|
|
| Permian (1931)
|
 Panama
|
8,890
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Ponca City (1919)
|
United States
|
7,051
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Prins Willem III (1939)
|
 Netherlands
|
1,524
|
|
| Prometheus (1923)
|
Panama
|
8,890
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Robert F Hand (1933)
|
United Kingdom
|
12,197
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Seminole (1936)
|
United Kingdom
|
10,389
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| Svealand (1925)
|
 Sweden
|
15,300
|
|
| Thorsholm (1937)
|
Norway
|
9,937
|
Curaçao to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
| USCG 475
|
 United States Navy
|
|
Escort 8 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USCGC Agassiz (WSC-126)
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 8 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USCGC Colfax (WSC-133)
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 8 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USCGC Dix (WSC-136)
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 8 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USCG Rush (WSC-151)
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 8 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USS 608
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USS Breckinridge (DD-148)
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov
Destroyer
|
| PT-22
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 8 Nov – 11 Nov
Torpedo boat
|
| USS PC-493
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USS PC-549
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 8 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USS PC-566
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USS PC-583
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USS PC-609
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| USS Surprise (PG-63)
|
United States Navy
|
|
Escort 6 Nov – 11 Nov
|
| Vacuum (1920)
|
United States
|
7,020
|
|
| Wallace E Pratt (1937)
|
United States
|
7,991
|
|
| Walter Jennings (1921)
|
United States
|
9,564
|
Aruba to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
|
References
Bibliography
- Hague, Arnold (2000). The Allied Convoy System 1939–1945. ISBN 1-86176-147-3.
- Rohwer, J.; Hummelchen, G. (1992). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-105-X.
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