RFA Derwentdale Convoys

RFA Derwentdale (Dale Class Oiler and LSG) 1941

Convoy                 Depart                         Arrive

ON.19    Ship joined from the Clyde 22nd September  – Halifax 10th October 1941
               (Derwentdale served as Convoy Commodore)

MA.3      Mombasa 8th December 1941 – Aden 15th December 1941

Convoy.Y  Durban 25th April 1942 – Diego Suarez 5th May 1942

SL.121    Freetown 3rd September 1942 – Liverpool 21st September 1942
                (With a cargo of FFO for the Clyde, arriving 21st September)

KMS.1G  Clyde 22nd October 1942 – Algiers 8th November 1942
                (Ship bound for Oran with 14 Landing craft)

MKS.4     Bone 22nd December 1942 – Liverpool 6th January 1942
                (Joined from Gibraltar 22nd December for the Clyde)

KMS.18B Clyde 24th June 1942 – Operation Husky 10th July 1942
                 (Sicily landings)

MKF.18    Sicily 10th July 1942 – Clyde 23rd July 1942
                 (ex Operation Husky to Malta, arriving 11th July)

KMS.21    Gibraltar 29th July 1943 – Port Said 9th August 1943
                  (Ship to Malta, arriving 4th August)

MKS.23     Alexandria 25th August 1943 – Gibraltar 3rd September 1943
                  (Ship to Bizerta, arriving 31st August)

FSS.2X      Bizerta 7th September 1943 – Operation Avalanche 9th September 1943

XK.18         Gibraltar 7th August 1944 – Liverpool 20th August 1944
                   (under tow of Hesperia to Oban 20th August 1944)