The International Arctic Convoys Reference Website

The purpose of this Website is to commemorate the ships and men who served on the convoy routes to the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

Very few participants and survivors remain of the thousands who risked death by cold and enemy attack to ship vital munitions and weapons to the USSR at the sharp end of its deadly struggle with Germany.

This is a collection of vital information

This needs to better understood amid civil non war contempories, while very few children grow up to know what this symbolises to them personally

, and what our predicestors experienced at part of their struggle for freedom, in a way which is not very publically known,

as is with 'The International Artic Convoys'.

Counting the cost

More than 3,000 British men and women died on the convoys which began in 1941.

A total of 78 convoys sailed to and from northern Russia during the war.

5,000 tanks and 7,000 aircraft, as well as trucks, ammunition and other supplies were delivered.

More than 100 ships were lost to surface, air and submarine attack.

In July 1942 only 11 of 39 ships reached the Kola Peninsula. Hundreds died as ships were picked off by German aircraft and U-boats. More than 200 aircraft, 400 tanks and 3,350 other vehicles were lost.