Convoy PQ 17 sailing in Hvalfjord.jpg

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Escorts and merchant ships at Hvalfjord before the sailing of Convoy PQ-17. Behind the destroyer Icarus (1.03) is the Russian tanker AZERBAIJAN. The sea voyage to the north Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel was the shortest route for sending Allied supplies to Russia. But it was also the most dangerous owing to the large concentration of German forces in northern Norway. The convoy PQ-17 was decimated by U-boats and the Luftwaffe after a communication from the Admiralty on 4 July 1942 ordered the escort to 'scatter'.

Date

May 1942

Source

This photograph A 8953 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums
(collection no. 4700-01)

Author

RN official photographer, Ware C J (Lt)

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