Maritime History

Convoy PQ 4

Convoy PQ 4 (17−28 November 1941) was the fifth of the Arctic Convoys of World War II by which the Western Allies supplied weapons, equipment and raw materials to the Soviet Union (USSR)) to help in its defence against Nazi Germany, following Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR on 22 June 1941. The convoy of eight ships sailed under escort from Hvalfjörður in Iceland, all of the escort vessels sailing to the USSR. The convoy arrived with the slower ships of Convoy PQ 3 that it had overhauled, the 15 ships entering the Northern Dvina together and docking at Arkhangelsk.

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See also

• ▸Holyhead Breakwater
• ▸Airborne transmission
• ▸HMCS Thiepval

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