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...

Inlet on 3 February 1944 and arrived at Loch Ewe on 11 February 1944. Convoy JW 57 sailed from Loch Ewe on 11 February 1944, arriving at Kola Inlet on 28...

preparations for November 1942's Operation Torch. The second series of convoys, JW (outbound) and RA (homebound) ran from December 1942 until the end of...

1944: HMS Furious of the convoy JW 57 covering force conducted Operation Bayleaf airstrikes against the Norwegian coast. Convoy escort HMS Keppel sank U-713...

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...

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...

January–February 1944. The following month Kent was part of the covering force for Convoy JW 57. On 17 July 1944, the ship was formed part of the covering force protecting...

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,...

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...

Commodore of the convoy. JW 57 Convoy JW 57 departed Liverpool on 20 February 1944 and arrived at the Kola Inlet on 28 February. RA 55A Convoy RA 55A departed...

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

Convoy JW 56B 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 January...

August and spent the rest of the year training. During the passage of Convoy JW 57 from the UK to Russia in February 1944, Furious, escorted by the British...

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...

Convoys JW 57 and JW 58, and in May was transferred to Escort Group 143 to prepare for the invasion of Normandy. On 6 June she formed part of Convoy ECL1...

Kola Inlet - Loch Ewe) Convoy JW 57 (Feb 1944: Loch Ewe - Kola Inlet) Loch Ewe was used as an assembly point for the Arctic Convoys during the war. Ships...

February–March 1944, Jamaica served as part of the covering forces for Convoys JW 57, JW 58 and RA 58. She was detached from the latter to escort the aircraft...

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...

Convoy PQ 18 (2–21 September 1942) was an Arctic convoy of forty Allied freighters from Scotland and Iceland to Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union during...

Wildcats, and sailed for Scapa Flow. On 22 January 1944, Chaser joined Convoy JW 57, which had left Loch Ewe the previous day, for escort to the Kola Inlet...

Britain-bound Arctic convoy RA 56, leaving the convoy on 9 February. The same month HMS Verulam was part of the escort group attached to convoy JW 57 along with...

many Arctic convoys to Northern Russia and back. In December 1942 she was part of a cruiser force that repelled a German attack on convoy JW 51B and in...

Fleet to escort Arctic convoys to and from the Soviet Union. In February 1944, she was part of the close escort group for Convoy JW 57 during its voyage from...

This is a list of convoy codes used by the Allies during World War II There were over 300 convoy routes organized, in all areas of the world; each was...

Card(BT389/19/161) "CONVOY JW 54A". Warsailors. Retrieved 28 July 2010. "Convoy RA.55A". Convoyweb. Retrieved 28 July 2010. "Navy and Merchant ships on Convoy JW-57". HMS...

USSR, 22 ships reached their destination. The outbound convoy series JW, began with Convoy JW 51A (15–25 December 1942), returns being called RW. In October...

for the Arctic Convoy JW 57, remaining with it until arriving at the Kola Inlet on 28 February and also escorted the return convoy RA 57 from Russia to...

in the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942, while escorting Convoy JW 51B to Russia. The convoy escorts held off attacks from the powerful Admiral Hipper...

February Wanderer accompanied aircraft carrier HMS Chaser on the Russian Convoy JW 57 which was attacked by U-boats with the loss of one destroyer. Wanderer...

for Convoy JW 56A on 27–29 January and she spent most of the next year escorting Allied convoys, notably Convoys JW 57, JW 58, JW 59, JW 60, JW 61, RA...