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snapper
05-26-2004, 09:38 AM
HMS Sheffield WW2 Russian Convoys (http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/1829/password//sort/1/cat/500/page/3)

A great picture showing some of the conditions on ships deck
Abbyy
05-26-2004, 09:50 AM
It is Russia, baby! :)
Cold waters of Barents sea?
snapper
05-26-2004, 10:13 AM
It is Russia, baby!

Fair point :roll: .

I just cant imagine what it must have been like for some of the unlucky ones who were victim to German sub attacks. Didnt last long in those waters. :|
Marmot1
05-26-2004, 04:14 PM
It is Russia, baby!

Fair point :roll: .

I just cant imagine what it must have been like for some of the unlucky ones who were victim to German sub attacks. Didnt last long in those waters. :|
5-7 minutes....


If he was lucky to get to boat but without warm clothes.... 5-7 hours

I remember that some guys from PQ-17 Convoy menaget to get to Nova Ziemya and after spending winter over there in spring were found by russian destroyer or patrol boat...
snapper
05-26-2004, 05:07 PM
PQ-17 sailed in June-July 1942 and suffered the heaviest losses of any Russia-bound (PQ) convoy.
snapper
05-27-2004, 01:21 AM
I remember that some guys from PQ-17 Convoy menaget to get to Nova Ziemya and after spending winter over there in spring were found by russian destroyer or patrol boat...

Its incredible that they managed to survive. :|
cut
05-27-2004, 08:32 PM
That's the run my Grandad did during the war.
Secret Squirrel
05-27-2004, 08:41 PM
PQ-17 sailed in June-July 1942 and suffered the heaviest losses of any Russia-bound (PQ) convoy.

Yep. A case of intelligence (aka Ultra) causing a disaster.
Russian Texan
05-28-2004, 12:52 AM
Correct me if I am wrong, but I do remember reading somewhere that PQ 17 was meant to be a trap, that had gone awfully wrong, for Tirpitz.
Sopposevely Britain wanted to sink that battleship so bad, it used one of the largest convoys of WW2 as a bait, while stationing number of Lancaster bombers on Russian airfields to sink it.


http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/photos/p_tirpitz5.jpgTirpitz
snapper
05-28-2004, 01:26 AM
Some information about Pq-17 and the Tirpitz (http://www.bismarck-class.dk/tirpitz/history/tiroperrosselsprung.html)
snapper
05-28-2004, 03:40 PM
That's the run my Grandad did during the war.

Did he ever tell you anything about it?