Liberty ship S.S. HAROLD L WINSLOW (note full name) was constructed in 32 days between September 23 and October 25, 1943, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland (see http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/bethfairfield.htm and scroll to hull number 2255). She survived the war and was sold to a private company in 1964, after which she was converted to a floating warehouse in Alaska. She may be there to this day for all I know.
Of greater importance to you, she made one voyage during the remainder of 1943, with the voyage actually ending in March 1944. She departed New York City on or about November 24, 1943, in convoy HX-268 with a cargo that included explosives, arriving in Liverpool on December 11. On December 20, 1943, she departed Loch Ewe, Scotland, about 250 nautical miles north of Liverpool, in convoy JW-55B, destination Archangel, Russia, the infamous “Murmansk run.” She reached Archangel on December 30. She departed Archangel on February 3, 1944, and returned to Loch Ewe on February 11. Then on February 14, 1944, she joined convoy ON-224 to return to the United States. However, on February 20, she left the convoy with “defects,” possibly engine problems, and diverted to Ponta Delgada, Azore Islands, for repairs, accompanied by one of the escorting warships in the convoy. Eventually HAROLD L WINSLOW reached New York on March 18, 1944. The ship made additional voyages in 1944-1945, including two trips to Russia and two to the Mediterranean, before being laid up, prior to her sale in 1964. The information in this paragraph comes from the ConvoyWeb website, http://convoyweb.org.uk/hague/index.html.
HAROLD L WINSLOW began this voyage with a crew of 43 merchant mariners and 30 U.S. Navy Armed Guard sailors. The crew list appears below. The crew list is available on the subscription website Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com) which contains databases of the names of crew members and passengers aboard merchant ships that arrived in certain U.S. ports of entry following a foreign voyage. If you are interested in any individual in the crew, there is a small amount of additional information in the record that I can provide.
Best wishes.
Ron Carlson, Webmaster
Armed Guard / Merchant Marine website
www.armed-guard.com
Merchant mariners:
Vincent P Alfinito
Robert E Anderson
Bernard Apson
Joseph Backhouse
Albert E Buchanan
James C Caine
John Carapiet
Napoleon A Cardin
Jennings B Cunningham
Walter K Davies
William F Davis
Franklin H Elmore
Walter H Gaiser
Theodore Galazon
Ernest W Grady
George Grove
Charles E Hall
David G Hanlon
Homer A Henrichon
Daniel J Howard
Johan E Iverson [Master]
Robert U Johnson
Karl M Karlsson
James R Kelliher
Lawrence G Korycki
Alexander H Lecuyer
Henry J Marcotte
Herman Mitchell
John Mudry
Vincent J Muno
Sixtus Petrus
Charles E Pherson Jr.
Theodore E Pollard
Stanley Serozinski
Joseph R Stocals [hospitalized in Archangel and left behind]
James J Strangis
John F Sutton
Lucio G Teodosio
Simon Walcaky
Thomas G Wallace
Martin N Weatley
Carlyle R Williams
Cuthbert Wills
U.S. Navy Armed Guard
Arthur J Abrams
Richard D Anderson
Neal Barnes
Charles T Burlin
William C Bellantoni
Dennie Browning
Michael Dagistino
Wayne C Haffner
James A Hamlin
James C Land
Charles W Lanhan
Lawrence M Magnusen
Theodore Matlosz
Robert G McCulloch [Armed Guard commanding officer]
James Brutus Moore
Charles E Osman
George Pastorius
Howard Peterson
John H Ray
Marvin Ross
Roy E Roudabush
Julius Sabo
Walter Small
James P Stemple
James A Trainor
James F Tylor
Joseph W Vrobel
Arthur R Wing
Thomas B Walker
Robert H Zeller
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