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RUSSIAN CONVOYS 1941-45

 

7. February-June 1942, including DESTRUCTION of CONVOY PQ17

US freighter West Gatomska, built 1918, had to return to Iceland before PQ.17 scattered to meet its fate (US, click to enlarge)

on to 8. June-September 1942, including Defence of PQ18

 
 

the convoys from PQ1 to PQ17 . . . . 

 


 

Links to light cruisers Edinburgh, Trinidad, minesweeper Niger

 


Crew of HM Trawler Northern Gem after escorting some of the scattered
merchantmen into Matochkin Strait, Novaya Zemlya

from "Coxswain in the Northern Convoys" by S A Kerslake

 

see also The Wartime Diary of Jack Bowman

 

 

the Merchantmen



Opposing Forces, evening of 4th July


Links to minesweepers Britomart,  the story of trawler Northern Gem in PQ.17

 


 

 

Decision to Scatter, 4th July


 


 

 

the Losses


 

 


PQ17 in Summary
(vessels in red were lost)


 

 

on to 8. June-September 1942, including Defence of PQ18
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Russian Convoys Contents

revised  28/7/11


 

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