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CONVOY QP 8
Departed Murmansk March 1-1942, split up March 9 - 5 ships arriving Hvalfjord March on 11.

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

Cargoes are not given.

Ship
Nationality
Destination
Empire Selwyn
British
Leith
Atlantic
"
Hartlepool
Ijora
Russian
U.S.A.
Sunk - See Notes
Revolutsioner
"
Hull
Explorer
British
Immingham
El Lago
Panamanian
U.S.A.
Norwegian tanker
U.S.A.
(See RU 16)
British Pride
British tanker
U.S.A.
(See RU 16)
British Workman
British
U.S.A.
(See also RU 18)
Cold Harbor
Panamanian
U.S.A.
Elona
British tanker
Sunderland
Larranga
American
U.S.A.
Tbilisi
Russian
U.S.A.
Friedrich Engels
"
U.S.A.
West Nohno
American
U.S.A.


Commodore was the captain of Empire Selwyn.

Due to bad weather the convoy was scattered on March 4, was able to reform (Ijora and Larranga missing at that time - the latter later arrived Iceland safely), but was scattered again on the 6th, and again able to reform.

Ijora (about 100 miles astern of convoy, cargo of timber) was sunk on March 7 by the German destroyer Friedrich Ihn (Tirpitz was out with 3 destroyers searching for Convoy PQ 12; in fact Convoy QP 8 had met this convoy at noon on the 7th, the ships in the 2 convoys passing through each other's columns).

QP 8 split up on March 9, with 5 of the ships arriving Hvalfjord on the 11th, escorted by Oxlip and Sweetbriar, and the rest heading for Akureyri. (See also text under Noreg).

Escorts:
Local Escort March 1-March 3: Minesweepers Harrier and Sharpshooter (until dawn), and the Russian destroyers Gremyaschi and Gromki (until dusk).
Ocean Escort (from March 1): Minesweepers Hazard (SOE) and Salamander, corvettes Oxlip and Sweetbriar.
March 2-March 7: Cruiser Nigeria (distant cover).
Close support provided briefly by cruisers Kent and London.

Related external link:
Russian Convoy Series

Arctic Convoys main page

To the next QP convoy in my list QP 9


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