Convoy QP 10

The Convoy QP 10 was an Allied Nordmeergeleitzug , in April 1942 in the Murmansk upstream Kola Bay was compiled and largely without charge into Icelandic Reykjavík drove. The Allies lost four freighters with 24,481 GRT in German submarine and air raids .

Composition and securing

The HMS Fury was together ...

... part of the Ocean Escort with the HMS Marne

The El Occidente sank by torpedo from U 435

The convoy QP 10 consisted of 22 cargo ships. On April 10, 1942, they left Soviet Murmansk ( Lage ) in the direction of Reykjavík ( Lage ). The convoy's commodore was Captain DA Casey, who had embarked on Temple Arch . Until April 12, the Eastern Local Escort with the Soviet destroyers took Gremjaschtschi and Sokruschitelny and the British minesweeper Gossamer , Harrier and Hussar the Nahschutz the convoy. From April 10 to 21, Ocean Escort also took over the security with the cruiser Liverpool , the destroyers Oribi , Punjabi , Marne , Fury , Eclipse , the mine sweeper Speedwell and the UJ trawlers Blackfly and Paynter to Reykjavík. A remote security group operated between Iceland and Norway with the battleships King George V , Duke of York , the aircraft carrier Victorious , the cruisers Kent , Nigeria and the destroyers Bedouin , Belvoir , Escapade , Eskimo , Faulknor , Ledbury , Matchless , Middleton , Offa , Onslow , Somali and Wheatland .

Surname	Type	flag	Measurement in GRT	Whereabouts
Artigas	freighter	Panama	5613
Beacon Street	freighter	United States	7467
Belomor Canal	freighter	Soviet Union	2900
Carpulin	freighter	Panama	4977
City of Joliet	freighter	United States	6167
Dneprostroi	freighter	Soviet Union	4756
El Coston	freighter	Panama	7286
El Occidente	freighter	Panama	5127	sunk on April 13 by U 435 ( Lage )
Empire Cowper	freighter	United Kingdom	7164	sunk on April 11th by III./KG 30 ( location )
Francis Scott Key	freighter	United States	7191
Harpalion	freighter	United Kingdom	5486	sunk on April 13th by III./KG 30 ( location )
Ironclad	freighter	United States	5685
Kiev	freighter	Soviet Union	5823	sunk on April 13 by U 435 ( Lage )
Mana	freighter	Honduras	3283
Minotaur	freighter	United States	4554
Mormacrio	freighter	United States	5940
Narvarino	freighter	United Kingdom	4841
River Afton	freighter	United Kingdom	5479
Sewzaples	freighter	United Kingdom	3974
Stone Street	freighter	Panama	6131
Temple Arch	freighter	United Kingdom	5138
West Gotomska	freighter	United States	5728

course

After the convoy was captured by the German aerial reconnaissance, a first attack by Junkers Ju 88 of the III took place on April 11th . Gruppe / Kampfgeschwader 30 from their Norwegian base in Bardufoss ( Lage ). In the process, she sank the freighter Empire Cowper (7,164 GRT). In contrast, the destroyers Hermann Schoemann , Z 24 and Z 25 could not find the convoy. On the night of 12./13. April U 435 attacked the convoy. After it had just missed the Punjabi , it sank the freighters El Occidente (6,008 GRT) and Kiev (5,823 GRT). On April 13th the III./KG 30 came back to the train, which sank the freighter Harpalion (5,486 GRT). On the way, 16 merchant ships and two minesweepers of the convoy PQ 14 joined the QP 10 because they had to turn back due to pack ice damage. The QP 10 reached Reykjavík in Iceland on April 21st. He lost a total of four freighters with 24,481 GRT.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronik des Maritime War 1939–1945, April 1942. Retrieved on January 9, 2017 . 
2. ^ Arnold Hague: Arnold Hague Convoy Database, QP Convoy Series. Retrieved January 12, 2017 . 

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