Updates

April 25, 2012 Evacuations and Landings. The contribution made by mercantile shipping submitted by Roy Martin.
TBA WW1 convoys. The reason why there has been a lack of additions to this web site for a while
July 16, 2010 18,746 notes by Arnold Hague and co-workers added to major convoy series (includes Commodores).
March 8, 2010 Mercantile Marine Memorials WW2. Search for Merchant Navy and DEMS gunners by name or by ship. Database contains 15,936 persons and data for 3,520 ships.
December 21, 2009 Major Update.The Arnold Hague Ports Database.
The individual area tables have been combined into a single database making this section much easier and quicker to use.
Also added a convoy search based on ship movements to supplement the convoy database.
June 20, 2009 Ship movements An additional 37 vessels added. Now lists 378 vessels and almost 37,200 ship movements.
Arnold Hague Shorter Convoys Convoy series SPAB added.
April 27, 2009 Signal Letters of British and Commonwealth Ships.
1912 and 1916 editions added to give a total of over 40,000 ship listings searchable by name or signal letters.
February 18, 2009

Signal Letters of British and Commonwealth Ships.
Search the 1938 & 1945 editions and supplements listing signals, grt. and Registration Numbers (mainly Lloyds) either by ship or by signal.    18,842 entries with flag hoist graphics.
November 17, 2008

Arrivals/ Departures search engine added to find ships arriving and departing at any one of 1,414 ports on a particular date or period.

Since this site is becoming so large and daunting, particularly for the newcomer, I have included a simplified KEY for navigation.
November 1, 2008 Ship movements for 341 vessels extracted from Lloyd's records held in the Guildhall, London.
September 21 , 2008 Some Russian convoys added to the Shorter Convoy Series.
CU/ TCU.
July 27, 2008 Convoy Codes extended by the addition of ADM 237 which contains more data and references than other quoted tables.
July 9, 2008 The EN series of convoy has been extend by the addition of 476 escorts and 750 merchants. Data provided by Tony Cooper.
July 8, 2008 Bugs removed from Numbered (Fr) and Lettered (Aus) Convoys in the Hague Shorter Convoy Series section.
June 23, 2008 The WN series of convoy has been extend by the addition of 256 escorts and 161 merchants. Data provided by Tony Cooper.
June 13, 2008 The NV series of convoy has been extend by the addition of 198 escorts and 141 merchants. Data provided by Tony Cooper.
May 24, 2008

Incidents file added to the Ports database to record collisions, damage, grounding, straggling, joining, detaching etc.
The data files have been updated almost daily since they were uploaded (see the ports home page for date of last update). The number of searches (ports) has been restricted following abuse of this site.
April 25, 2008 Major Update.
The Arnold Hague Ports Database.
Search over one million port entries from the world' ports listing the arrival and departure dates for merchant shipping to piece together a ship's movements both in convoy and as independent..
March 26, 2008 Hague convoy search engine re-written to eliminate searches for vessels that are not listed in the database.
February 29, 2008 Additional data to the Hague database in convoys LTS.12, MB.24, MB.26, MB.30, MB.31, MB.32, MB.33, MB.35, MB.38, MB.41, MB.50, MB.51, MB.51A, MB.53, MB.54, MB.55, ME.17, ME.22, MW.19, MW.23, SRM.5, SRM.10, STL.12, SW.4A, TX.6/1, TX.4/1, XT.6/1.
January 18, 2008 Kriegsmarine U-boat Grid Charts added.
Minor updates/ corrections to Shorter Convoys Database.
January 7, 2008 Arnold Hague Shorter Convoy database updated with more convoy data, mainly additional escorts. The Shorter database now holds 52,014 merchants and 5,490 escorts. The complete database now holds the composition of 28,156 individual convoys with full search.
December 3, 2007 Arnold Hague Shorter Convoy database updated with more convoy data and additional series. The Hague database now holds details of 28,007 individual convoys with full search.
Convoy Finder extended to cover all of the Hague databases.
October 29, 2007 Convoy Finder completely rewritten to include most of the Arnold Hague database.
October 26, 2007 Arnold Hague Shorter Convoy database covers 346 shorter convoy series. The whole database now holds details of 27,892 individual convoys and the movements of 322,483 ships and 44,501 escort duties. The whole database has now been uploaded.
October 4, 2007 Arnold Hague Convoy database updated Rev. #4.
98 convoy series:18,461 convoys (271,310 ship movements, 40,880 escort duties) with full search. Convoy series added: BG, BM, BN, BTC, BW, CO, ETM, FBC, FH, FTC, FTM, HA, HF, HK, HS, JC, KH, KS, NG, OC, TA, TC.
September 16, 2007

Arnold Hague Convoy database updated Rev. #3.
76 convoy series: 15,241 convoys (243,027 ship movements) with full search. Convoy series added:JT, NT, NV, NY, PN, TN, VN, ATM, TBC, WP, AP, TJ, GK, AH, EBC, ETC.
September 9, 2007 Arnold Hague Convoy database updated Rev. #2.
60 convoy series:12,380 convoys (222,343 ship movements) with full search. Convoy series added: AT, BC, CE, CW, EC, EN, GN, GZ, HN, KN, SH, TAM, TAW, WAT, ZG
September 2, 2007 Arnold Hague Convoy database updated Rev. #1.
45 convoy series: 9,560 convoys (191,980 ship movements) with full search. Convoy series added: BX, GAT, GUF, GUS, JW, KG, KX, NK, OL, ONS, PQ, QP, RA, STL, TAG, UC, UGF, WN, XB.
August 29 , 2007

Major Update.
Arnold Hague Convoy database added. Currently holds convoy data for BB, BHX, CU, DS, HG, HX, HXF, OA, FN, FS, KMF, KMS, MKF, MKS, OB, OG, ON, ON (Nor), OS/ KMS, RU, SC, SD, SL/ MKS, ST, UR and UGS series. Searchable either individually or collectively. 7,300 convoys listed.

August 12 , 2007

WS series completed.
11 Charts added (72).
Search engine extended to index 1,752 convoy Web pages.
April 27, 2007

New section - WS convoy series (WS.1 - WS.29) started.
Search engine extended to index 1,612 convoy Web pages.
April 8, 2007 Search engine extended to index 1,590 convoy Web pages.
February 19, 2007

Merchant Shipping Movement Card finder added here.
Search engine extended to index 1,483 convoy Web pages.

December 6, 2006 12 more OB convoys added - all the data that I have at this time.
Search engine extended to index 1,451 convoy Web pages.
Added additional detailed chart of Freetown - see here or Extras.
November 8, 2006 KMF.5 added to Convoy Charts (64).
November 7, 2006 21 more OB convoys added.
Search engine extended to index 1,420 convoy Web pages.
October 2, 2006 20 more OA/ OB convoys added.
Search engine extended to index 1,342 convoy Web pages.
Ebook "The Convoy Goes Through" free download.
September 5, 2006

5 Convoy Charts added (63). WS.12Z and SL.127 extended.
Sailing Directions for entry into Freetown (1942).
Both accessible through Extras .

September 2, 2006 OA convoy series separated from OB and extended.
OA convoys added (to OA.184)
Search engine extended to index 1,307 convoy Web pages.
July 29, 2006 OB convoy series extended to OB.160.
Search engine extended to index 1,273 convoy Web pages.
July 3, 2006 OB convoy series extended to OB.140.
Search engine extended to index 1,250 convoy Web pages.
June 13, 2006 OB convoy series extended to OB.103.
Search engine extended to index 1,200 convoy Web pages.
May 3, 2006 OB convoy series extended to OB.80.
Search engine extended to index 1,163 convoy Web pages.
April 15, 2006 Charts for troop convoys added (58).
April 3, 2006 OB convoy series extended to OB.60.
Search engine extended to index 1,132 convoy Web pages.
March 25, 2006 OB convoy series started (added OB.4 - OB.32)
Search engine extended to index 1,112 convoy Web pages.
March 15, 2006 Charts for OB and OG convoys added (48).
March 14, 2006 Uploaded final set of SL/MKS convoys (total = 153 convoys).
Search engine extended to index 1,085 convoy Web pages.
March 2, 2006 Uploaded 18 additional SL convoys.
Search engine extended to index 1,030 convoy Web pages.
February 26, 2006 Added an additional search engine for convoys.
February 18, 2006 Extras: 8 convoy charts added. Total plots = 42.
Extras: New addition, Signals used in convoy.
January 29, 2006

Notes and commemorations (provided by Billy McGee) have been added for 108 vessels lost in the SL/MKS series.
See here.

January 27, 2006 Search engine extended to index 984 convoy Web pages.
November 26, 2005 SL/ MKS convoys added to SL.176. This completes the data that I have to hand for the SL/ MKS series. Additional charts (31).
Search engine extended to index 919 convoy Web pages.
November 13, 2005

Additional charts plotted (27).

October 22, 2005 Search engine extended to index 877 convoy Web pages.
Convoys SL.141 - SL.150 added.
October 11,2005 Convoys SL.131 - SL.140 plus the Mediterranean section of MKS.24 added. Multi-convoy search engine extended to search 794 convoy Web pages.
October 5,2005 'Extras' added (charts, calculators etc). Site map added.
September 30, 2005 Search engine extended to index 768 convoy Web pages.
August 24, 2005 Search engine re-written and extended to 738 Web pages. Convoys SL.113 - SL.130 added. Escort vessels added to Russian convoys.
July 10, 2005 Russian convoys extended and hyperlinks added.
July 5, 2005 Index for multi-search engine extended to include data for over 700 convoy web pages.
June 21, 2005

Convoys SL.104 - SL.112 added.
Code for multi-search engine modified and updated.

June 9, 2005 Russian convoys added.
Multi-search engine extended and updated.
June 6, 2005 Convoys at www.mhold.eclipse.co.uk are now redirected here.
Website moved to new host (http://www.your-name-here.co.uk/) which I would thoroughly recommend. Really excellent support! BTW I have no financial interest.
May 28, 2005 Convoys added to SL.103. Multi-search engine extended and updated.
May 3, 2005 Convoys added to SL.77
April 30, 2005 Convoys added to SL.60