Convoy JW 55B was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in late December 1943, reaching the Soviet northern ports at the end of the month. All ships arrived safely.
During the voyage JW 55B was approached by a German force centred on the battleship Scharnhorst; no contact was made with the convoy, but Scharnhorst was sunk, in the Battle of the North Cape, by the battleship HMS Duke of York, a handful of Royal Navy light surface combatants, and Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Stord.
ConvoyJW55B was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in late December...
Kriegsmarine to intercept the expected Arctic convoys. In late December 1943, there was a Russia-bound convoyJW55B consisting of 19 cargo vessels under the...
to intercept ConvoyJW 51B. The German force was driven off by a combined force of destroyers and cruisers. In December 1943, ConvoyJW55B was the target...
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ConvoyJW 56A was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in January 1944...
ConvoyJW 51B was an Arctic convoy sent from United Kingdom by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in late December...
sunk during the battle of the North Cape while attempting to engage convoysJW55B and RA 55A. 26 January 1944: Isegrim gruppe U-boats damaged HMS Obdurate...
attack ConvoyJW55B. The next day Force One, which had left Murmansk on the 23rd, encountered Scharnhorst, prevented her from attacking the convoy, and...
warships of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) and British ships escorting convoyJW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. The action took place in the Barents Sea...
warship. On 25 December Scharnhorst sailed to intercept the British convoy, JW55B, believing it to be sparsely protected. In the ensuing Battle of the...
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("East front") (1943) – final operation of Scharnhorst, to intercept convoyJW55B Domino (1943) – second aborted Arctic sortie by Scharnhorst, Prinz Eugen...
which at the time of RA 55A's departure was trailing the Murmansk-bound convoyJW55B. RA 55A was threatened by a U-boat force of eight boats in a patrol...
Convoy Battles of World War II occurred when convoys of warships protected cargo ships assembled for mutual defense and were attacked by submarines, surface...
her in position to attack the convoy at 10:00. Admiral Burnett, commanding the three cruisers escorting ConvoyJW55B, Norfolk, Belfast, and Sheffield...
Tirpitz Ostfront (1943) – final operation of Scharnhorst to intercept convoyJW55B Paderborn (1943) – third and successful transfer of Scharnhorst and...
intercept the Allied ConvoyJW55B en route to Murmansk. Bey's initial force of Scharnhorst and five destroyers was superior to the convoy's escorting British...
sinking a tug. 20–30 December ConvoyJW55B – German battleship Scharnhorst and escorts sortie to locate Allied convoy. Preludes Battle of the North Cape...
ConvoyJW 56B was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. It sailed in late January...
destroyer escort for the Russian convoy RA 54B, protecting it until it reached Loch Ewe on 9 December without loss. The convoyJW55B sailed from Loch Ewe for...
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