Ire fortiter quo nemo ante iit.

 
Remembering
Michael Walsh Leading Fireman RFA Creosol died 7th of february 1918
William Brocklehurst Scullion RFA Creosol died 7th of february 1918
W J Lawrence Donkeyman RFA Berta died 7th of february 1946
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)

 
 

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