Convoy PQ 16 - Ship List

Ship List

  • Alamar,
  • Alcoa Banner,
  • American Press,
  • American Robin,
  • Arcos,
  • Atlantic,
  • Black Ranger,
  • Carlton,
  • Chernyshevski,
  • City of Joliet,
  • City of Omaha,
  • Empire Baffin,
  • Empire Elgar,
  • Empire Lawrence,
  • Empire Purcell,
  • Empire Selwyn,
  • Exterminator,
  • Heffron,
  • Hybert,
  • John Randolph,
  • Lowther Castle,
  • Massmar,
  • Mauna Kea,
  • Michigan,
  • Minotaur,
  • Mormacsul,
  • Nemaha,
  • Ocean Voice,
  • Pieter Van Hoogh,
  • Revolutsioner,
  • Richard Henry Lee,
  • Shchors,
  • Stary Bolshevik,
  • Steel Worker,
  • Syros
  • West Nilus.

The merchant ships that were sunk were: Alamar, Empire Lawrence, Empire Purcell, Mormacasul, (bombed) City of Joliet (bomb-damaged and scuttled later), Lowther Castle (torpedoed by aircraft) and Syros (torpedoed by U-703). Ocean Voice and Stari Bolshevik were bomb-damaged but reached port safely. Steel Worker reached port but was later bombed in harbour and sunk.

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