• 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 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 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 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 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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    Operation FB (category Arctic convoys of World War II)
    BO-78. Convoy QP 15 (convoy commodore, Captain W. C. Meek) was a return convoy of thirty empty merchant ships from the USSR and was the last of the QP series...
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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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    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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    sank U-408 north of Iceland. 17 November 1942: Convoy QP 15 departed Kola Bay. A storm dispersed the convoy and sank escorting Soviet destroyer Sokrushitelny...
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    This is a List of Allied convoys during World War II by region. "Norwegian Campaign, World War 2 at Sea, April 1940". "Norwegian Campaign, World War 2...
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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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    the reciprocal Convoy QP 11, which left Murmansk in the Soviet Union on 28 April. On 1 May the Luftwaffe made its first attack on PQ 15, by six Junkers...
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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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    attack. The practice of meeting homeward-bound QP convoys near Bear Island was dispensed with and QP 14 was to wait until PQ 18 was near its destination...
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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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    November with HMS Halcyon, Hazard, Salamander and Sharpshooter in escorting Convoy QP 15 through the Barents Sea. They were detached on 20 November and returned...
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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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    13, 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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    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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    Russian Convoy PQ 18. Further Arctic convoy duty followed, escorting returning Convoy QP 15 in November, then Convoy JW 51A in December 1942, and Convoy JW...
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    Convoy PQ 12 was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in March 1942,...
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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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    escorted returning Convoy QP 15, and Convoy JW 51A in December. Further escort duty followed in 1943, escorting Convoy JW 52 in January, Convoy JW 53 in February...
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    Sea, March 1943 The convoy prefix indicates the route of the convoy. For example, 'PQ' would be Iceland to Northern Russia and 'QP' the return route. The...
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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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  • arrived without loss. JW 51A was the first of the JW/RA convoy series, replacing the previous PQ/QP series which had been suspended during the summer and...
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    local escort for Arctic convoys as they arrived and left Russian ports. Convoys escorted included PQ 8, PQ 9/10, QP 7 and QP 9. On the night of 17/18...
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    close convoy escorts and to sail outbound and homeward convoys at the same time, for both to benefit from the distant escort. Convoy PQ 12 and Convoy QP 8...
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    and the cessation of convoys after the disaster of Convoy PQ 17. Harmatris sailed for Archangelsk on 21 July Not until Convoy QP 14 (13–26 September 1942)...
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