Convoy QP 13

Convoy PQ 13
Part of Arctic Convoys of the Second World War

German occupied Norway (in green) lay along the flank of the sea route to northern Russia
Date26 June – 7 July 1942
Location
Arctic Ocean
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
 United Kingdom
 United States
 Soviet Union		  Germany
Units involved
Convoy PQ 13 and Allied escorts Luftwaffe
Strength
36 Merchant ships
Casualties and losses
5 Merchant ships sunk
1 Merchant ship damaged
1 Escort sunk

Convoy QP 13 was an Arctic convoy of the PQ/QP series which ran during the Second World War. It was the thirteenth of the numbered series of convoys of merchant ships westbound from the Arctic ports of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk to the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America.

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