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CONVOY JW 66

Convoy JW 66 Cruising Order
Left Clyde Apr. 16-1945, arrived Kola Inlet Apr. 25 (27 ships)

Br=British, Am=American, Norw-Norwegian
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
11
Keith Palmer
(Am)
21
Park Benjamin
(Am)
31
John Gibbon
(Am)
41
Samaritan
(Br)
51
William Tyler Page
(Am)
61
Benjamin H Hill
(Am)
71
Lord Delaware
(Am)
12
Woodbridge N Ferris
(Am)
22
Linn Boyd
(Am)
32
British Respect
(Br)
42
Black Ranger
(Br)
52
Joshua Thomas
(Am)
62
Nelson W Aldrich
(Am)
72
Kronprinsen *
(Norw)
13
Renald Fernald
(Am)
23
Empire Garrick
(Br)
 33
August Bellmont
(Am)		 43
David B Johnson
(Am)		 53
Laurelwood
(Br)		 63
Cecil N Bean
(Am)		 73
Kong Haakon VII *
(Norw)
14
Stevenson Taylor
(Am)		 24
Copeland
(Br)
Rescue Vessel		 34
Albert C Ritchie
(Am)		 44
 54
William D Byron
(Am)		 64
Owen Wister
(Am)		 74
* There is some disagreement in my sources with regard to these 2 ships, in that some of my Norwegian books say they were in JW 67. Follow the link to Kong Haakon VII.


Commodore was in Samaritan, Vice Commodore in Benjamin H Hill and Rear Commodore in Linn Boyd.

Black Ranger, Blue Ranger (not included in above table) and Laurelwood were escort oilers. Blue Ranger may have detached en route, she is found in the next returning convoy, RA 66 (departed Kola on Apr. 29), having joined late in the passage, May 5 (available at the external link below).

Copeland was on her 35th voyage as Rescue Vessel, joining from Clyde Apr. 17, remained with the convoy to the Kola Inlet, returning with RA 66 on Apr. 29, to Clyde May 8-1945.

JW 66 arrived its destination unharmed.

Escorts:
Apr. 16-Apr. 25 (close escorts): Sloop Cygnet, corvettes Alnwick Castle, Bamborough Castle, Farnham Castle, Honeysuckle, Lotus, Oxlip and Rhododendron. Also, frigates Loch Insh, Loch Shin, Cotton, Goodall and Anguilla (19 Escort Group).
From Apr. 18: Cruiser Bellona, escort carriers Premier and Vindex, destroyers Offa, Zealous, Zephyr, Zest, Zodiac, Canadian Haida, Huron and Iroquois and Norwegian Stord.

(The above went on to escort the returning RA 66).

Related external link:
Russian Convoys

Arctic Convoys main page

To the next JW convoy in my list JW 67

Source for the information on this page: Convoys to Russia 1941-1945, Bob Ruegg/Arnold Hague, 1992, and "Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", Arnold Hague, 1998.

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