How do I find out the crew list of the SS Harold Winslow from 1943
Re: Crew list
Posted by Ron Carlson on January 3, 2017, 8:36 am, in reply to "Crew list"
Janis,
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