Convoy PQ 6 was the seventh of the
Arctic convoys of World War II
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 – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia. There were 78 convoys ...
by which the Western Allies supplied material aid to the
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
in its fight with
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...
. The convoy sailed from
Hvalfjörður
Hvalfjörður (, "whale fjord") is situated in the west of Iceland between Mosfellsbær and Akranes. The fjord is approximately long and wide.
The origin of the name Hvalfjörður is uncertain. Certainly today there is no presence of whales i ...
, Iceland, on 8 December 1941 and arrived at
Murmansk
Murmansk () is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far Far North (Russia), northwest part of Russia. It is the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Ko ...
on 20 December 1941.
Ships
The convoy consisted of eight merchant ships (1 Soviet, 4 British, 1 Norwegian and 2 Panamanian). The escort included the cruiser , destroyers and , two minesweepers and two armed trawlers. The ships arrived safely.
Order of battle
Convoyed ships
Escorts
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Naval battles of World War II involving the Soviet Union