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Convoy PQ 17 was an
Allied Arctic convoy during the
Second World War. On 27 June 1942, the
ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the port of Arkhangelsk...
- was a
convoy rescue ship
built for the
Royal Navy
during World War II,
originally laid down as the Castle-class
corvette HMS
Barnard Castle (
pennant number...
- from the
viewpoint of the
British naval officers and
seamen who
served in
convoy escorts. A voice-over by Lieutenant-Commander
George Ericson, a British...
- admiral. A commodore's ship is
typically designated by the
flying of a
broad pennant, as
compared to an admiral's flag. "Commodore" is
typically regarded as...
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Castle was a Castle-class
corvette of the
Royal Navy,
originally with
pennant number K384. She was
built by
William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd. in Sunderland...
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Group for
Atlantic convoy defence duty. In
August she was
detached to the 20th
Escort Group for
Russian convoy duty,
joining Convoy JW 59 to Murmansk....
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Royal Canadian Navy
during the
Second World War. She
served primarily as a
convoy escort in the
Battle of the Atlantic. She was
named for Longueuil, Quebec...
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Convoy is a 1940
British war film,
produced by
Ealing Studios,
directed by Pen
Tennyson and
starring Clive Brook, John
Clements and
Edward Chapman. Convoy...
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operated in the Arctic,
usually as part of the
close covering force of
Arctic convoys to Russia,
where she was
involved in the
sinking of the
German battleship...
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Hampton Roads bound for Brest, France,
escorting a
troop convoy. On 18 October, she left her
convoy to
rescue 86
survivors of
torpedoed USS Lucia (ID-3090)...
