Dedication and Thanks
Arnold Hague, born 1930, carried out his National Service from 1949 as a
Midshipman, Supply & Secretariat, then joined the Reserve Division in
London, retiring as a Lieutenant Commander in 1979. In this time, his
appointments included command of two Reserve Communications Centres and the Sea
Cadet Corps in the West Midlands area.
His published books include “The Towns,
Destroyers for Great Britain”, “Sloops 1926-1946”, “Convoy Rescue Ships”, “The
Allied Convoy System 1939-1945” and co-author of “Convoys to Russia”. He was
also as sub-editor of “Jane’s Fighting ships” in the late 1960’s and made
numerous contributions to naval publications over the last forty years. He died
in February 2006, and is much missed in naval history circles.
It is therefore with great pleasure that Naval-History.Net, through the
good offices of Arnold’s close friend and collaborator, Don Kindell and with
the kind permission of his wife, Gill Hague (also a former Reserve Officer),
hosts his unpublished and invaluable work on the WS convoys.
As with all of Arnold’s work, primary official sources were the key and
this work is no exception, relying as it does on Official Admiralty War Diaries, narratives, and convoy reports, Lloyds
ship movement cards, etc.
Photographs are courtesy of
David Page of
NavyPhotos
(NP). My thanks to him and his contributors.
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Introduction
Support
of
Malta during the siege
Methods of supply
The
convoys of 1940
The
convoys of 1941, including:
Operation EXCESS
Operation TIGER
Operation SUBSTANCE
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Operations MINCEMEAT, HALBERD
The
convoys of 1942, including:
Operation HARPOON
Operation VIGOROUS
Operation PEDESTAL
Operation STONEAGE
Operation PORTCULLIS
Operation QUADRANGLE
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Unescorted
merchant ships, including:
Operation
TEMPLE
Operation PROPELLER
Operation ASTROLOGER
Operation CRUPPER
Supply of
aircraft to
Malta by RN
Operations HURRY & COAT
Operations WHITE & WINCH
Operations DUNLOP & SPLICE
Operations ROCKET & TRACER
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Supply of
aircraft (continued)
Operations RAILWAY I & II
Operations STATUS I & II
Operations CALLBOY & PERPETUAL
Operations SPOTTER I, II & PICKET I
Operations PICKET II & CALENDAR 48
Operation BOWERY
Operations LB, STYLE & SALIENT
Operations PINPOINT & INSECT
Operations BELLOWS, BARITONE & TRAIN
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Supply of
Malta by air
Supply of
Malta by surface warships
Supply of
Malta by submarines
Submarine
store passages in 1940/41
Submarine
store passages in 1942
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Chronology
of Malta Operations 1940-1942
Warship losses
Merchant
ship losses
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