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The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia. There were 78 convoys between August 1941 and May 1945, [1] sailing via several seas of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans ...
14-knot UC convoys of tankers and fast cargo ships with some troopships: UC: Liverpool to Caribbean (later New York City) 15 February 1943 3 June 1945 71 14-knot convoys of tankers with some fast cargo ships: UGF: Chesapeake Bay to Mediterranean 24 October 1942 8 April 1945 22 faster ships - (UGF-1) was the invasion force for Operation Torch: UGS
10 February 1942: Combined convoys PQ 9 and 10 arrived in Murmansk escorted by HMS Nigeria, Faulknor and Intrepid. The escort departed with return convoy QP 7 on 12 February. [53] 15 February 1942: Soviet submarine S-101 sank 1147-ton Mimona off Tanafjord. [54] 23 February 1942: Convoy PQ 11 arrived in Murmansk. Admiral Scheer joined Tirpitz in ...
Russian map showing Arctic convoy routes from Britain and Iceland, past Norway to the Barents Sea and northern Russian ports After Operation Barbarossa , the German invasion of the USSR, began on 22 June 1941, the UK and USSR signed an agreement in July that they would "render each other assistance and support of all kinds in the present war ...
Convoy PQ 8 (8–17 January 1942) was an Arctic convoy of the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during the Second World War.The convoy left Iceland on 8 January 1942. On 12 January the convoy had to turn south to avoid ice; the weather was calm, visibility was exceptional, with a short period of twilight around noon. and arrived in Murmansk nine days later.
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The video raised the ire of Russia’s influential military bloggers, who questioned why the trucks were moving in a convoy under Ukrainian fire. “The Russian government has tried its best to ...
Convoy PQ 17 was an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War. On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the port of Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union. The convoy was located by German forces on 1 July, shadowed and attacked.