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CONVOY QP 10
Left Kola Inlet on Apr. 10-1942, arrived Reykjavik on the 21st.

Received from Tony Cooper, England - His source: Public Records Office, Kew.
Station numbers and names of escorts were obtained from "Convoys to Russia 1941-1945", Bob Ruegg / Arnold Hague.

Cargoes are not given.

Note that quite a few of these ships are listed in the Reykjavik-U.K. Convoy RU 20 on Apr. 24.
Ship
Nationality
Station
Destination
Temple Arch
British
31
U.K.
Navarino
"
21
U.K.
Harpalion
"
13
U.K.
Sunk - See Notes
Empire Cowper
"
34
U.K.
Sunk - See Notes
River Afton
"
23
U.K.
Sevzaples
Russian
11
U.K.
Belomorcanal
"
12
U.K.
Kiev
"
22
U.K.
Sunk - See Notes
Dneprostroi
"
33
U.K.
Beaconstreet
British
41
U.S.A.
El Coston
Panamanian
52
U.S.A.
Artigas
"
32
U.S.A.
El Occidente
"
51
U.S.A.
Sunk - See Notes
Capulin
"
42
U.S.A.
Dunboyne
American
–
U.S.A.
Listed in QP 11
Stone Street
Panamanian
43
U.S.A.
Returned to Kola (damaged by aircraft)
Joined QP 11
Mana
Honduran
53
U.S.A.
Additionally, the following joined during the voyage, returning to Iceland with weather damage
(all from Convoy PQ 14)
City of Joliet
American
35
(Later joined PQ 16 for Russia*)
Ironclad
"
54
(Does not show up again till PQ 17**)
Mormacrio
"
24
(Later joined PQ 15***)
Francis Scott Key
"
14
(Later joined PQ 15)
Minotaur
"
55
(Later joined PQ 16)
West Gotomska
"
44
(Does not show up again till PQ 17)
* Convoy PQ 16 sailed from Reykjavik on May 21.

** Convoy PQ 17 left Reykjavik on June 27

*** Convoy PQ 15 left Oban for Reykjavik on Apr. 10, proceeding from Reykjavik for Russia on Apr. 26.
(All these convoys are available at this external site).


Commodore was the captain of Temple Arch, Vice Commodore the captain of Navarino.

The convoy was attacked for 3 days. Stone Street had to return to Kola with damages from aircraft attack.
Empire Cowper and Harpalion were sunk by aircraft on Apr. 11.
El Occidente and Kiev were sunk by U-435 on Apr. 13 (Kiev had already been damaged by aircraft).

Escorts:
Apr. 10-Apr. 12: Minesweepers Gossamer, Harrier and Hussar and 2 unknown Russian destroyers.
Apr. 10-Apr. 17: Destroyer Eclipse, minesweeper Speedwell and trawlers Blackfly and Paynter.
Apr. 10-Apr. 21: Destroyers Fury, Marne, Oribi and Punjabi.
Apr. 12-Apr. 18: Cruiser Liverpool.
Distant Cover: The Home Fleet, same as distant cover for Convoy PQ 14 (listed as Battleships King George V and Duke of York, aircraft carrier Victorious, cruisers Nigeria and Kent, destroyers Bedouin, Belvoir, Escapade, Eskimo, Faulknor, Ledbury, Matchless, Middleton, Offa, Onslow, Somali and Wheatland).

Related external links:
The attack on El Occidente
The attack on Kiev

Arctic Convoys main page

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