In June of 1942, Convoy PQ-17, consisting of nearly 300 aircraft, 600 tanks, over 4,000 trucks, and a general cargo of over 150,000 tons, took off from Hvalfjord, Iceland, on its way to the port of ...

"PQ-17 was the code name for an Allied Second World War convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, the Arctic convoys suffered a significant defeat when Convoy PQ-17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships ...

The Hydrographic Service has information that the convoy's three vessels sank near Novaya Zemlya's Yuzhny Island MURMANSK, June 23. /TASS/. The Northern Fleet's Hydrographic Service during the ...

We tend to forget about the war in the Arctic, and about the Merchant Marine crewmen who sailed into waters heavily patrolled by Nazi U-boats that stalked them. World War II was such a sprawling ...

Captain Rolfe Monteith, of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has died aged 101, was one of the teenage Dominion volunteers who crossed the Atlantic to serve in the Second World War, and one of the last ...

On June 27, 1942, a caravan of ships, codenamed PQ-17, left Reykjavik for Arkhangelsk. The route of the ships with cargo for Russia lay across the North Atlantic, where they were awaited by chilling ...