• Convoy QP 10 was an Arctic convoy of World War II, consisting of empty merchant ships returning from the Soviet Union after delivering their cargo there...
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    Convoy QP 14 (13–26 September 1942) was an Arctic convoy of the QP series which ran during the Second World War. The convoy was a return journey of Allied...
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    Convoy QP 13 was an Arctic convoy of the PQ/QP series which ran during the Second World War. It was the thirteenth of the numbered series of convoys of...
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  • Convoy QP 15 was an Arctic convoy of the PQ/QP series which ran during the Second World War. It was one of a series of convoys run to return Allied ships...
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    Convoy QP 11 was an Arctic Convoy of World War II, made up of merchant ships returning from the Soviet Union to Britain after delivering their cargo to...
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  • Convoy QP 3 was one of Arctic convoys of World War II which sailed from the United Kingdom, United States or Iceland to the USSR. This small oceanic slow-speed...
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    on the centre of the convoy extravagantly risky. Coastal Command operations in support of Convoy PQ 18 and the returning convoy QP 14, involved 111 aircraft...
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    14, 15 and QP 9, 10 and 11 had little effect, twelve sinkings out of 16 lost in PQ convoys and two out of five sinkings from QP convoys being credited...
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    2 July. Convoy QP 13 was not attacked, since the German tactic was to concentrate on eastbound (laden) convoys, rather than westbound convoys in ballast...
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    Convoy QP 1 (28 September – 19 October 1941) was the first of the Arctic Convoys of the Second World War by which the Allies brought back ships that begun...
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    practice of meeting homeward-bound QP convoys near Bear Island was dispensed with and QP 14 was to wait until Convoy PQ 18 was near its destination, despite...
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    Soviet submarine Shch-404 sank 2318-ton Michael off Tanafjord. 10 April 1942: Convoy QP 10 departed Kola Bay escorted by HMS Liverpool, Oribi, Punjabi,...
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  • Empire Cowper was bombed and sunk on 11 April 1942 whilst a member of Convoy QP 10. Empire Cowper was built in 1941 by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland...
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    Russia. She briefly escorted Convoy QP 8 on the return leg from Russia in March 1942 and provided distant cover for Convoy QP 10 the following month. Kent...
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    the first convoy, code-named Operation Dervish in August 1941, the Arctic convoys ran in two series: The first series, PQ (outbound) and QP (homebound)...
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    renamed Murmansk. Harpalion and Empire Cowper were lost on the return convoy, Convoy QP 10. Tobruk was bombed and sunk in Murmansk port during disembarking...
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  • Convoy PQ 17 was the penultimate of the PQ/QP series of arctic convoys, bound from British ports through the Arctic Ocean via Reykjavík to the White Sea...
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  • and sunk at Malta by the Luftwaffe. The cargo ship Empire Cowper of convoy QP 10 was bombed and sunk in the Barents Sea by Junkers Ju 88 aircraft. The...
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    Murmansk. German awareness of these and the reciprocal westbound convoys (Convoy QP 1 to Convoy QP 4) was too vague to plan attacks by the Kriegsmarine or the...
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    engaged a German ship just once, while defending Convoy QP 13 in early 1942. While escorting Convoy QP 15 in November, she sank during a severe storm after...
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    Convoy PQ 12 was an Arctic convoy sent from Reykjavík in Iceland by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during the Second World War. It sailed...
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    developed for two days as the German forces were busy with the reciprocal Convoy QP 11, which left Murmansk in the Soviet Union on 28 April. On 1 May the...
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    World War. The convoy was the largest yet and was provided with a considerable number of escorts and submarines. QP 12, a return convoy, sailed on the...
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    Arctic as a replacement for the damaged cruiser Trinidad. She joined Convoy QP 10, comprising 16 merchant vessels and five destroyers, on 12 April 1942...
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  • ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "Taijun Maru". www.combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 6 January 2021. "Convoy SC.79". Warsailors. Retrieved 24 May 2012. "DD-74". Dictionary of American...
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    Convoy Database. ConvoyWeb. Retrieved 6 August 2008. "Convoy QP.10". Arnold Hague Convoy Database. ConvoyWeb. Retrieved 6 August 2008. Crowell, Benedict; Robert...
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    charges. During April 1942, she was involved with escorting convoys QP 10, PQ 14 and QP 11. On 30 April, she accompanied the damaged HMS Edinburgh, however...
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    the following morning. Fury remained in Murmansk until 10 March, when she screened Convoy QP 10 through to Iceland. She escorted the distant cover force...
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    the inward bound convoys PQ 9 and PQ 10 until their arrival in Murmansk on 10 February. On 13 February they joined the return convoy QP 7 through the Barents...
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    on 30 October. Empire Baffin joined from Scapa Flow on 17 October. QP 3 Convoy QP 3 sailed from Archangel on 27 November 1941 and dispersed on 3 December...
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