In July 1942, a heavily escorted Allied convoy set out across the Arctic, carrying vital supplies to the Soviet Union. As ...

"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 wrecks were traced by the staff members of the national cartographical office who were researching the seafloor close to the Norwegian-Russian border OSLO, October 21. /TASS/. Wrecks of three ...

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 ...

In June 1942, Convoy PQ-17 departed from Iceland carrying thousands of military vehicles, aircraft, and over 150,000 tons of cargo bound for the Soviet port of Arkhangelsk. Intended to support 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 ...

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 ...