View Single Post
  #5  
Old 18th November 2017, 23:37
Rainer's Avatar
Rainer Rainer is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Switzerland
Posts: 175
Rainer is on a distinguished road
Re: SS Winston-Salem Convoy PQ17

Hi Brian

After returning to the UK with convoy QP-14 the WINSTON-SALEM was in Newcastle-upon-Tyne for a month of repairs and then remained in the Clyde to be loaded and sent to North Africa on 21 January 1943 - eventually arriving back in the US when arriving in New York on 1 April 1943. The crew list made on this occasion shows that William Lovgren was still her master and signed off at New York with the rest of the crew that had made the voyage to North Russia.

So I doubt that Lovgren had returned to the US earlier, but his illness could be the reason why WINSTON-SALEM did not return to the US like the other US merchant ships did that returned from North Russia in convoy QP-14. Maybe a report from the Assistant Naval Attache Capt. Samuel B. Frankel exists somewhere about the whole episode, as he accompanied the Russian vessels to Moller Bay to salvage WINSTON-SALEM.
__________________
Best regards
Rainer Kolbicz

Crew member of http://uboat.net
Reply With Quote