HMS Snowdrop - Flower Class Corvette

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  1. dolphinecosse

    dolphinecosse New Member

    Hiya. I was wondering whether any of you had a relative who served on this ship in WW2 with my late brother in law Ron Goodger, as I am interested in any stories from that time and also I am trying to find a photo of this actual ship.
     
  2. Temujin

    Temujin Member

    No photo, but. List of Convoy’s that HMS Snowdrop was part of the Escort. List is NOT in order of date, but in Order of Convoy Types (OS, or ST) etc

    SNOWDROP in Convoy HX.142 (Aug 1941: Halifax - Liverpool)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy KMS.11G (Mar 1943: Clyde - Bone)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy OG.55 (Mar 1941: Liverpool - Gibraltar)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ON.2 (Jul 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ON.4 (Aug 1941: Liverpool - Dispersed 52.40N 47.26W)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ON.57 (Jan 1942: Liverpool - Dispersed 43.20N 59.39W)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy OS/KMS.52 (Jul 1943: Ex OS52/ KMS21 - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy OS/KMS.24 (Apr 1942: Liverpool - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy OS/KMS.49 (Jun 1943: Ex OS49/ KMS16 - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy OS/KMS.20 (Feb 1942: Liverpool - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy OS/KMS.22 (Mar 1942: Liverpool - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy OS/KMS.25 (Apr 1942: Liverpool - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy SL/MKS.104 (Mar 1942: Freetown - Liverpool)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy SL/MKS.134 (Jul 1943: Freetown - Liverpool)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy SL/MKS.136 (Sep 1943: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.24)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy SL/MKS.146 (Jan 1944: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.37)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy SL/MKS.164 (Jul 1944: Freetown - Rendezvous with MKS.55)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy SL/MKS.164MK (Jul 1944: Rendezvous of SL164 with MKS55 - Liverpool)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ST.19 (Apr 1942: Freetown - Takoradi)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ST.21 (Apr 1942: Freetown - Takoradi)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ST.63 (Apr 1943: Freetown - Takoradi)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ST.71 (Jul 1943: Freetown - Takoradi)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ST.78 (Feb 1944: Freetown - Takoradi)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy ST.83 (Jun 1944: Freetown - Takoradi)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy STL.6 (Nov 1943: Freetown - Lagos)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy STL.15 (Mar 1944: Freetown - Lagos)
    SNOWDROP in Convoy STL.20 (Apr 1944: Freetown - Lagos)
    SNOWDROP found in Convoy LTS.12 (Mar 1944: Lagos - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP found in Convoy TS.14 (Aug 1942: Takoradi - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP found in Convoy TS.35 (Apr 1943: Takoradi - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP found in Convoy TS.42 (May 1943: Takoradi - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP found in Convoy TS.46 (Jul 1943: Takoradi - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP found in Convoy TS.47 (Jul 1943: Takoradi - Freetown)
    SNOWDROP found in Convoy TS.59 (May 1944: Takoradi - Freetown)
     
  3. Temujin

    Temujin Member

    If you willing to do a little “work”, and if you have the Dates of your late brother’s service on HMS Snowdrop, you can put together a list of each convoy, ships in the convoy, when the escorts joined or departed. By using Arnold Hague Convoy database, you could build the entire list of all convoys.........and of course their is other sources that gives you more information....even the “order” the ships sailed in the convoy, if any ships were lost (sunk etc)

    I’ve use an example of the last convoy on the list TS.59

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    Source: Arnold Hague convoy database - misc convoys
     

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