CONTENTS
- Background: Convoy PQ.17
- Biography: Jack Bowman
- HMS La Malouine ~ K46
- Galleries:
- PQ17: Merchant Ships
- PQ17: Close Escort
PQ17 Diary
Royal Navy, White Ensign
PQ.17 | Close Escort
There are 20 images on this page so please be patient as it loads. You will see that some ships have an asterisk (*) before their names. This indicates that the ship continued on, as ordered, to Murmansk or Archangel along with the surviving merchantmen. Those without, largely the destroyer escort, are the ships that withdrew under orders from the Admiralty.
Where individual ships have a Wikipedia entry their names are linked to that page. If there is no entry on Wikipedia links are provided to ship details on uboat.net.
All the ships in the close escort were provided by the Royal Navy.
*HMS La Malouine (K46) | Flower Class Corvette | in Matochkin Strait | Image courtesy of red-rooster.co.uk
*HMS Dianella (K07) | Flower Class Corvette | Image from Flower Class Corvette and WWII Royal Navy Forums
*HMS Lotus (K130) | Flower Class Corvette | Icebound in northern waters | Image from Flower Class Corvette and WWII Royal Navy Forums
*HMS Poppy (K213) | Flower Class Corvette | Image from Flower Class Corvette and WWII Royal Navy Forums
*HMS Palomares | Anti-aircraft ship | Image courtesy of red-rooster.co.uk
*HMS Pozarica | Anti-aircraft ship | Image courtesy of red-rooster.co.uk
*HMS Lord Middleton (FY219) | armed trawler | seen here post-war after re-conversion to a fishing vessel. Her sistership was the Lord Austin (FY220) which didn't survive the war.
*HMS Northern Gem (FY194) | armed trawler | image courtesy Lancashire County Council
*HMS Ayrshire (FY225) | armed trawler | IWM image A 10101
*HMS Halcyon (J42) | Halcyon Class minesweeper | IWM image FL 9841
*HMS Salamander (J86) | Halcyon Class minesweeper | IWM image FL 18563
*HMS Britomart (J22) | Halcyon Class minesweeper | IWM image FL 2980
HMS Keppel | Shakespeare Class (Thornycroft type leader) | the destroyer escort leader for Escort Group 1 and Convoy PQ17. Commanded by Captain Jack Broome RN. | IWM image A 15039
HMS Wilton (L128) | Hunt class (type 2) destroyer | shown here post-war after re-designation as a frigate
HMS Ledbury (L90) | Hunt class (type 2) destroyer
HMS Offa (G29) | O Class destroyer | IWM image FL 9897
HMS Fury (H76) | F Class destroyer
HMS Leamington (G19) | Wickes Class destroyer | IWM image A 8902
HM Submarine P 614 | Oruc Reis class submarine | under construction for Turkey at the outbreak of war and commandeered by the Royal Navy on the outbreak of hostilities. | IWM image TR 585
HM Submarine P 615 | Oruc Reis class submarine | under construction for Turkey at the outbreak of war and commandeered by the Royal Navy on the outbreak of hostilities. | IWM image A 12308