Convoy PQ 7

Convoy PQ 7 was the eighth of the Arctic convoys of the Second World War by which the Western Allies supplied material aid to the Soviet Union in its fight with Nazi Germany. The convoy was in two parts: PQ 7a sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland on 26 December 1941 and arrived at Murmansk on 12 January 1942. PQ 7b sailed from Hvalfjord, Iceland on 31 December 1941 and arrived in Murmansk on 11 January 1942.

Ships

Convoy PQ 7a

Convoy PQ 7a consisted of two merchant ships; SS Cold Harbor (Panama) and SS Waziristan (UK), and was escorted by two armed trawlers. SS Waziristan was sunk by the German submarine U-134 on 2 January 1942.

Freighters

Merchant ships[1]
Name Year Flag GRT Notes
SS Cold Harbor 1920 Panama 5,010
SS Waziristan 1924 United Kingdom 5,135 Convoy Commodore, stranded in ice, sunk by aircraft and U-134

Convoy escorts

Convoy escorts[1]
Name Flag Type Notes
HMT Hugh Walpole  Royal Navy Anti-submarine trawler Escort 26–27 December
HMT Ophelia  Royal Navy Shakespearian-class trawler Escort 26–27 December

Convoy PQ 7b

Convoy PQ 7b comprised nine merchant vessels (two Panamanian, one Russian and seven British). The escort consisted of the destroyers HMS Icarus, HMS Tartar and two armed trawlers. All ships arrived safely.

Merchant ships

Convoyed ships[2]
Name Year Flag GRT Notes
SS Aneroid 1917 Panama 5,074
SS Botavon 1912 United Kingdom 5,848
SS Chernyshevski 1919 Soviet Union 3,588
SS Empire Activity 1919 United Kingdom 5,335
SS Empire Halley 1941 United Kingdom 7,168
SS Empire Howard 1941 United Kingdom 6,985
SS Empire Redshank 1919 United Kingdom 6,615
SS Jutland 1928 United Kingdom 6,153
SS Reigh Count 1907 Panama 4,657

Escorts

Convoy escorts[2]
Name Flag Type Notes
HMS Icarus  Royal Navy I-class destroyer Escort 4–11 January
HMS Tartar  Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer Escort 4–11 January
HMT Cape Argona  Royal Navy ASW trawler Escort 31 December – 4 January
HMT Wastwater  Royal Navy ASW trawler Escort 31 December – 4 January

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Ruegg & Hague 1993, p. 24.
  2. ^ a b Ruegg & Hague 1993, p. 25.

References

  • Ruegg, R.; Hague, A. (1993) [1992]. Convoys to Russia: Allied Convoys and Naval Surface Operations in Arctic Waters 1941–1945 (2nd rev. enl. ed.). Kendal: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-66-5.

Further reading

  • Hague, Arnold (2000). The Allied Convoy System 1939–1945. London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-55125-033-5.
  • Hill, Alexander (2006). "The Allocation of Allied "Lend-Lease" Aid to the Soviet Union arriving with Convoy PQ 12, March 1942 – A State Defense Committee Decree". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 19 (4). Philadelphia, PA: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.1080/13518040601028545. ISSN 1351-8046. S2CID 144712146.
  • Jordan, Roger W. (2006) [1999]. The World's Merchant Fleets 1939: The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships (2nd ed.). London: Chatham/Lionel Leventhal. ISBN 978-1-86176-293-1.
  • Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard (2005) [1972]. Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (3rd rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-257-3.
  • Woodman, Richard (2004) [1994]. Arctic Convoys 1941–1945. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-5752-1.
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