Maritime History

Convoy PQ 3

Convoy PQ 3 (9−22 November 1941) was the fourth of the Arctic Convoys of the Second World War by which the Western Allies supplied the Soviet Union in its fight with Nazi Germany. The departure of Convoy PQ 3 was delayed for destroyers to repair weather damage and because of intelligence reports of an imminent sortie by the German battleship Tirpitz and the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer. The convoy sailed from Hvalfjord in Iceland and arrived unhindered at Arkhangelsk, except for the British freighter SS Briarwood that suffered ice damage and returned to Iceland, escorted by the trawler HMT Hamlet. On 28 November Convoy PQ 3 entered the Northern Dvina with Convoy PQ 4, a faster convoy that had caught up since leaving Iceland on 17 November.

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See also

• ▸German cruiser Deutschland
• ▸Abbey Pumping Station
• ▸Funchal

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