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Subject: Re: CLAN MACAULAY/EMPIRE DRIVER

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Billy McGee

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Date Posted: 28/01/08 4:30pm
In reply to: Kath 's message, "CLAN MACAULAY/EMPIRE DRIVER" on 28/01/08 1:37pm

Clan Macaulay, 10,492grt, (Clan Line) There does not appear to be any surviving convoy records covering the dates you mentioned. You could request the Ship Movement Cards of this ship from Kew. If they have survived they will be held in BT389/7

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8370494&SearchInit=4&CATREF=BT+389%2F7&j=1">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8370494&SearchInit=4&CATREF=BT+389%2F7&j=1</a>

Empire Driver, 7,042grt (MOWT,Watts, Watts & Co. mngrs). Surviving records of convoys show this ship had saliled in the following:

Convoy KMS.11G (Mar 1943: Clyde - Bone)

Convoy OS/KMS.46 (Apr 1943: Ex OS46/ KMS13 - Freetown)

Convoy SL/MKS.156 (Apr 1944: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.47)
Convoy SL/MKS.157MK (May 1944: Rendezvous of SL157 with MKS48 - Liverpool)

Convoy WN.586 (May 1944: Loch Ewe - Methil)

Convoy TE.20 (Apr 1943: Gibraltar - Bone)

Convoy AKD.3 (Oct 1943: Aden - Durban)

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Re: CLAN MACAULAY/EMPIRE DRIVER	kath	29/01/08 1:25pm