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Soviet battleship Arkhangelsk, formerly HMS Royal Sovereign, transferred to the Soviet Navy in 1944 and returned to the United Kingdom in 1949 Russian submarine Arkhangelsk (K-525) , an Oscar-class nuclear-powered submarine of the Soviet and Russian Navy in service from 1981 to 1993
The battleship Tirpitz was moved to Trondheim in January, where she was joined by the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and in March by the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. [13] The battleships Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen were also sent to Arctic waters but fell victim to Allied air attacks and had to turn back for repairs.
HMS Royal Sovereign (pennant number 05) was a Revenge-class (also known as Royal Sovereign and R-class) battleship of the Royal Navy displacing 29,970 long tons (30,451 t) and armed with eight 15-inch (381 mm) guns in four twin-gun turrets.
During World War I (1914–1918), Central Powers blockades halted traffic between Imperial Russia and its Allies via the Black Sea and the Baltic. The Tsarist authorities sped up development of an ice-free port at Romanov-on-Murman (present-day Murmansk); however, supplies arriving via the Arctic came too little and too late to prevent the Allied collapse on the Eastern Front.
Arkhangelsk in 1944. HMS Royal Sovereign was loaned by the Royal Navy in 1944 in lieu of reparations from Italy. She was assigned to the Northern Fleet with the name of Arkhangelsk and used to escort convoys during the war. Returned to Britain in poor condition in 1949 when the USSR received the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare and sold for scrap.
Anthony Devlin via ReutersA decorated Australian soldier’s defamation case has been derailed after hundreds of photos showing soldiers drinking from a prosthetic leg were unearthed from his ...
11 October 1941: Convoy PQ 1 escorted by HMS Suffolk arrived in Arkhangelsk. [37] 17 October 1941: Soviet submarine Shch-402 sank the 682-ton Vesteraalen in Soroysundet. [38] 18 October 1941: U-132 sank the 3487-ton Argun at the entrance to the White Sea. [37] 30 October 1941: Convoy PQ 2 arrived in Arkhangelsk. Return convoy QP 2 departed on 2 ...
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