The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union, most to Arkhangelsk or Murmansk in Ru
View from the cruiser HMS Sheffield escorting a convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In the background are merchant ships of the convoy.
Propaganda poster advertising British aid to the Soviet war effort
Photograph of a German Enigma coding machine
Ice forms on a 20-inch (51 cm) signal projector on the cruiser HMS Sheffield, part of the escort of an Arctic convoy to the Soviet Union.
Convoy QP 13
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Convoy QP 13 was an Arctic convoy of the PQ/QP series which ran during the Second World War. It was the thirteenth of the numbered series of convoys of merchant ships westbound from the Arctic ports o
Intrepid was one of five destroyers escorting Convoy QP 13