Convoy PQ 9/10

Convoys PQ 9 and 10 were Arctic convoys sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II. They sailed together in early February 1942 and arrived in Murmansk without loss.

Ships

Convoys PQ 9 and 10 together comprised ten ships; three British, four Soviet, one American, one Norwegian and one of Panamanian registry. The convoy was escorted by two destroyers, HMS Faulknor and HMS Intrepid, and five trawlers, supported by the cruiser HMS Nigeria. These were joined in the last stage of the voyage by a Soviet destroyer and three Royal Navy minesweepers based at Murmansk.

Voyage

PQ 9 sailed from Scotland for Iceland in mid-January, where it was joined by ships from the Americas. PQ 10 was due to follow, but delays and failures meant that just one ship Trevorian, sailed for Reykjavik, on 26 January 1942. Meanwhile, PQ 9's departure on 17 January had been delayed after the Admiralty received reports of a sortie by the German battleship Tirpitz.^[1] It was decided that Trevorian would join the ships of PQ 9, rather than wait for PQ 10 to be re-formed. The combined convoy of ten ships sailed from Reykjavik on 1 February. It was undetected by German aircraft or U-boats in the continuous darkness of the polar night, and arrived safely at Murmansk on 10 February.

Ships in Convoy PQ 9^[2]

Name	Flag	Tonnage (GRT)	Notes
Atlantic (1939)	United Kingdom	5,414
HMS Britomart (J22)	Royal Navy		Escort 07 Feb - 10 Feb
El Lago (1920)	Panama	4,221
Empire Selwyn (1941)	United Kingdom	7,167	Reykjavik 31 Jan, sailed 1 Feb
HMS Faulknor (H62)	Royal Navy		Escort 05 Feb - 10 Feb
Friedrich Engels (1930)	Soviet Union	3,972
HMS Hav	Royal Navy		Escort 10 Feb - 10 Feb
Ijora (1921)	Soviet Union	2,815
HMS Intrepid (D10)	Royal Navy		Escort 05 Feb - 10 Feb
HMS Nigeria (60)	Royal Navy		Escort 05 Feb - 08 Feb
Noreg (1931)	Norway	7,605
Revolutsioner (1936)	Soviet Union	2,900
HMS Sharpshooter	Royal Navy		Escort 07 Feb - 10 Feb
HMS Shikari (1919)	Royal Navy		Escort 10 Feb - 10 Feb
Tbilisi (1912)	Soviet Union	7,169
Trevorian (1920)	United Kingdom	4,599
West Nohno (1919)	United States	5,769

Ships in Convoy PQ 10^[3]

Name	Flag	Tonnage (GRT)	Notes
Trevorian (1920)	United Kingdom	4,599

Notes

↑ Roskill p116
↑ "Convoy PQ.9". Arnold Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
↑ "Convoy PQ.10". Arnold Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 15 October 2013.

References

Clay Blair : Hitler's U-Boat War Vol I (1996) ISBN 0-304-35260-8
Paul Kemp : Convoy! Drama in Arctic Waters (1993) ISBN 1-85409-130-1
Stephen Roskill : The War at Sea 1939-1945 Vol II (1956). ISBN (none)
Bernard Schofield : (1964) The Russian Convoys BT Batsford ISBN (none)
PQ 9/10 at Convoyweb

Arctic convoys of World War II

1941

Outbound	Dervish PQ 1 PQ 2 PQ 3 PQ 4 PQ 5 PQ 6

Homebound	QP 1 QP 2 QP 3

1942

Outbound	PQ 7a PQ 7b PQ 8 PQ 9 PQ 10 PQ 11 PQ 12 PQ 13 PQ 14 PQ 15 PQ 16 PQ 17 PQ 18 Operation FB JW 51A JW 51B

Homebound	QP 4 QP 5 QP 6 QP 7 QP 8 QP 9 QP 10 QP 11 QP 12 QP 13 QP 14 QP 15 RA 51

1943

Outbound	JW 52 JW 53 JW 54A JW 54B JW 55A JW 55B

Homebound	RA 52 RA 53 RA 54A RA 54B RA 55A RA 55B

1944

Outbound	JW 56A JW 56B JW 57 JW 58 JW 59 JW 60 JW 61 JW 61A JW 62 JW 63

Homebound	RA 56 RA 57 RA 58 RA 59 RA 59A RA 60 RA 61 RA 61A RA 62 RA 63

1945

Outbound	JW 64 JW 65 JW 66 JW 67

Homebound	RA 64 RA 65 RA 66 RA 67

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