In June of 1942, Convoy PQ-17, consisting of nearly 300 aircraft, 600 tanks, over 4,000 trucks, and a general cargo of over ...

Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII, which delivered vital war supplies to the Soviet Union via the Arctic, and reveals the convoy's greatest disaster. Show more Jeremy ...

The Northern Fleet's Hydrographic Service during the Remember War expedition in autumn will be searching for vessels of Convoy PQ-17, which was crossing the Arctic in World War II, the service's ...

Book review: Of the many convoys that traversed northern seas ferrying goods to Soviet ports during World War II, none met a fate as awful as the one numbered PQ-17.

Archive List > Books > Russian Convoy PQ 16 by Herbert Hall My father, Herbert Geoffrey Hall - Geoff Hall — was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in 1911, and died in retirement in North Wales in ...

What I cannot understand is how the R.N. would desert a convoy of merchant seaman to there own fate convoy PQ 17 was left like this after the escorts were recalled by R.N. headquarters.

PQ17 was a joint Allied convoy whose mission was to deliver weapons and other supplies to the Eastern Front under cover from British and U.S. warships during World War II.