Convoy JW 55B was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in late December...

Kriegsmarine to intercept the expected Arctic convoys. In late December 1943, there was a Russia-bound convoy JW 55B consisting of 19 cargo vessels under the...

to intercept Convoy JW 51B. The German force was driven off by a combined force of destroyers and cruisers. In December 1943, Convoy JW 55B was the target...

Convoy PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied Arctic convoy during the Second World War. On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for...

Convoy RA 55B was an Arctic convoy during World War II. It was one of a series of convoys run to return Allied ships from Soviet northern ports to ports...

warships of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) and British ships escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. The action took place in the Barents Sea...

sunk during the battle of the North Cape while attempting to engage convoys JW 55B and RA 55A. 26 January 1944: Isegrim gruppe U-boats damaged HMS Obdurate...

warship. On 25 December Scharnhorst sailed to intercept the British convoy, JW 55B, believing it to be sparsely protected. In the ensuing Battle of the...

attack Convoy JW 55B. The next day Force One, which had left Murmansk on the 23rd, encountered Scharnhorst, prevented her from attacking the convoy, and...

Convoy JW 56A was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in January 1944...

which at the time of RA 55A's departure was trailing the Murmansk-bound convoy JW 55B. RA 55A was threatened by a U-boat force of eight boats in a patrol...

Convoy JW 51B was an Arctic convoy sent from United Kingdom by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in late December...

Convoy JW 58 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 1944,...

her in position to attack the convoy at 10:00. Admiral Burnett, commanding the three cruisers escorting Convoy JW 55B, Norfolk, Belfast, and Sheffield...

("East front") (1943) – final operation of Scharnhorst, to intercept convoy JW 55B Domino (1943) – second aborted Arctic sortie by Scharnhorst, Prinz Eugen...

battleship Scharnhorst was likely to attack Convoy JW 55B, which was already at sea. German aerial reconnaissance spotted the convoy on 22 December, and Scharnhorst...

sinking a tug. 20–30 December Convoy JW 55B – German battleship Scharnhorst and escorts sortie to locate Allied convoy. Preludes Battle of the North Cape...

Tirpitz Ostfront (1943) – final operation of Scharnhorst to intercept convoy JW 55B Paderborn (1943) – third and successful transfer of Scharnhorst and...

following convoy, Convoy JW 55B, would be attacked by the German surface ships. Two surface forces were assigned to provide distant cover to JW 55B, which...

Convoy Battles of World War II occurred when convoys of warships protected cargo ships assembled for mutual defense and were attacked by submarines, surface...

Canadian destroyers, three corvettes and a minesweeper. The outgoing convoy, JW 55B, had left Loch Ewe on 20 December and was expected to reach Bear Island...

advances on Ceylon. Norfolk was part of the cruiser covering force of Convoy JW 55B when it engaged Scharnhorst, on 26 December 1943. She scored three hits...

December 1943, Scharnhorst was ordered to intercept the next convoy to the Soviet Union, Convoy JW 55B. The ship was to operate only with five destroyers; Tirpitz...

intercept the Allied Convoy JW 55B en route to Murmansk. Bey's initial force of Scharnhorst and five destroyers was superior to the convoy's escorting British...

destroyer escort for the Russian convoy RA 54B, protecting it until it reached Loch Ewe on 9 December without loss. The convoy JW 55B sailed from Loch Ewe for...

was escorting her next convoy, Convoy JW 55B, when it came under attack by German Junkers Ju 88 bombers on 22 December. The convoy escaped unscathed. Huron...

regularly escorted convoys to Murmansk in the Soviet Union: Fraser was convinced that Scharnhorst would attempt an attack on Convoy JW 55B, and put to sea...

Convoy JW 57 was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in February 1944...

minesweeper Gleaner as the escort for Convoy JW 55B; after the German battleship Scharnhorst put to sea to threaten the convoy, destroyers of the Home Fleet joined...

the Battle of North Cape in 1943, escorting the Russia-bound Arctic convoy JW 55B. She took no part in the fighting. She was sold to the Royal Netherlands...