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Originally Posted by bigboywooly
Bit of an eye opener as regards to escorts/hunter killer groups
SEPTEMBER 1942Atlantic
Russian Convoy PQ18 - PQ18 leaves Loch Ewe in Scotland on the 2nd with over 40 merchantmen. Close escort is provided by 17 warships plus escort carrier "Avenger" and two destroyers. Two separate forces are in support - close cover is given by AA cruiser "Scylla" and 16 fleet destroyers and further out three heavy cruisers. More distant cover is by battleships "Anson" and "Duke of York", a light cruiser and destroyers to the northeast of Iceland. Home Fleet submarines are on patrol off the Norwegian Lofoten Islands and northern Norway. Of the original 40 ships, 27 reach Archangel on the 17th in exchange for three U-boats. |
Yup i have a book called
"From Africa To the Arctic
A Year on The destroyer HMS Beagle during WWII"
By Peter Ward
(Leading Seaman on board)
in which he details all the ships on the Arctic convoys- names numbers types etc--huge numbers of Destroyers--sometimes TWO escort carriers, cruisers the whole mile and a half--massive convoys- massively escorted/defended-
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