CONVOYS TO RUSSIA
DETAILED LIST OF LOSSES
In a detailed account of the convoys that got through from Britain to Russia during the war, and their unremitting battle with enemy U-boats, surface vessels and aircraft and the constant menace of ice, Captain I. M. R. Campbell, R.N., at the Royal United Services’ Institute in London, said that in 40-odd convoys, 792 ships sailed outward and 62 were lost; 739 ships sailed for home and 28 were lost; corresponding with a percentage loss of 7.8 and 3.8 respectively, compared with under 1 per cent, in the Atlantic Ocean convoys. British and Allied merchant service casualties were 829 men. The Royal Navy lost two cruisers, six destroyers, three corvettes, three mine-sweepers, and 1840 men. At this price over 3,500,000 tons of war material, including fuel oil and aviation spirit, were delivered.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1946, Page 2
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