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Honour - ARCTIC 1941-45


Date -  1941/45
Type - Area Awards 
Conflict - World War 2; 1939-45  

 
Description The area is defined as being within the Arctic Circle except for Norwegian coastal waters south of Tromso.

It was awarded to all ships an submarines, including covering forces, which served as escort to, or in support of convoys to/from North Russia. Plus ships and submarines on patrol in the are which took part in a successful operation.

The scale of operations are shown by the following statistics.

No of convoys escorted to Russia = 40; ships = 720.

No of convoys escorted from Russia - 35; ships = 680

Allied Merchant ship losses

British    35 ships
USA       47 ships
Panama   7 ships
USSR       9 ships
Dutch        1 ship
Norway     1 ship
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Total     100 ships; 605,837 tons.

Royal Navy Ships lost;.
Cruisers; Edinburg, Trinidad;
Destroyers; Achates, Hardy, Mahratta, Matabele, Punjabi, Somali;
Sloops; Kite, Lapwing;
Frigate; Goodall;
Corvettes; Bluebell; Denbigh Castle;
Minesweepers; Bramble, Gossamer, Leda, Niger;
Armed Whalers, Shera;
Submarine; P551.

It should also be remembered that all on board each ship which set sail, knew if their ship was sunk, the life expectancy of an unprotected person in the frigid arctic waters was about 4 minutes.

 

  
 
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Northern Wave 42-43 Notts County 42 Nubian 44    
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Serapis 44-45 Sharpshooter 41-43 Sheffield 41-43 Shropshire 41 Shusa 42
Silja 42 Sioux 44-45 Sirius 42 Skate 43 Snowflake 42
Somali 41-42 Somaliland 44 Speedwell 42-44 Speedy 42 Starling 44
Starwort 42-44 Stella Capella 42 Stormont 44 Striker 44 Strule 44
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This page last edited - 24 April, 2013.

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