Note on Convoys

Lists of Convoy Escort Movements for many of the capital ships, cruisers, escort carriers, armed merchant cruisers, destroyers, frigates, sloops, corvettes etc. of the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and some Allied Navies have been compiled by Don Kindell, Naval History Researcher from existing databases in his possession. They are now being uploaded on Naval-History.Net.

The first ones follow. The visitor will find that most of Don Kindell's lists are being added as addenda to the "Service Histories of Royal Navy Warships in World War 2" researched by by Lt Cdr Geoffrey B Mason RN (Rtd). This way, both sets of information for a given ship are on the same page.

Where Service Histories do not exist, the escort movements are grouped together  i.e. British corvettes, Canadian corvettes and  armed merchant cruisers

However, a word of caution is necessary. The visitor will find discrepancies between the two sets of convoy information. As with casualty figures, this highlights the difficulty sometimes of ensuring accuracy with naval history data. Every attempt will be made to reconcile these differences, but this will take time and may never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

Don Kindell informs me that:

"The basis of the lists was the comprehensive convoy database compiled by the late Arnold Hague (naval historian and author, ex-Lt Cdr, RNR, Rtd). However, since Arnold deliberately concentrated on merchant ships and not the escorts, this, plus his death cut short further research, and a number of convoys did not have the escorts listed. I have filled in many series from information not entered from Arnold's files, from the War Diaries (notably, Rosyth War Diary and Mediterranean War Diary), and from various other primary documents."

and Geoff Mason that:

"With his earlier histories, he used Blair's two volumes plus other published sources, but later referred to Arnold Hague's publications."